The Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel referred veiledly to a return to normal life in the country, during his speech last Saturday at the meeting of the group created for the prevention and control of the coronavirus pandemic.
"We cannot gain confidence, on the contrary (...), we must continue evaluating the insufficiencies we have in order, in the shortest possible time, to return to normality," he stated.
Regarding the topic, Díaz-Canel reported that in a recent session of the Council of Ministers, “a group of decisions were made in relation to recovery planning, and everything that the country will do in the future and in the immediate present to also face the economic crisis associated with this pandemic”, without giving more details.
When analyzing the data from the Ministry of Public Health that shows the incidence of the pandemic in the country during the week that has just concluded, the president boasted that for several days the number of diagnosed cases was lower than the number of cured patients.
“…for seven consecutive days there were more exits than entries into the Health system,” he said.
“Active patients decreased by 183, that is, those who were admitted for care, which has taken the burden off our system of Health institutions,” he added.
Regarding the economic issue, he did not provide more elements.
In the recent extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers to which the ruler referred, held the previous Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Alejandro Gil Fernández reported that the impact of the pandemic forced the recent approval of an adjustment to the Economy Plan planned for this year. , according to a note published by the newspaper Granma.
Gil pointed out that the country could begin the recovery stage in the coming months, but stressed that the process will not be from one day to the next and will cover several phases, the first of which will include the reopening of services and activities on the Island, maintaining prevention measures against the virus.
The information of Granma It does not provide concrete elements and leaves more doubts than answers regarding a future reopening of economic activity, which the vast majority sees as very distant, given the rates of coronavirus infections and deaths in Cuba. According to data from the Ministry of Public Health this Sunday, there are currently 1,776 confirmed patients and 77 deaths.
The regime maintains its usual habit of hiding relevant information from the population. This same week, a journalistic report that addressed precisely the economic adjustments approved by the Council of Ministers, strangely disappeared from the country's official media.
The deleted text, titled 'Council of Ministers approved adjustments to the 2020 Economy Plan and indications for 2021', originally dealt with an approach by Díaz-Canel about more quickly implementing several pending issues in the Conceptualization of the Economic and Social Model, such as the resizing of the business and private sectors.
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the Cuban economy was already severely deteriorated. With the closure of tourism, responsible for providing a large part of the income to the regime, in a scenario aggravated by the harassment of the US administration, the government announced that considers adopting measures taken during the special period.
On the other hand, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) predicted last April that the island's economy would fall by 3.7 percent in 2020, due to the global effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
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