The Spanish company Iberia has confirmed to CyberCuba that this Wednesday, August 12, a humanitarian flight will depart from Madrid to Cuba, on which only those people who process authorization through the Cuban Embassy in Spain will be able to board.
The same plane will return this Thursday, August 13 to Madrid, but the Spanish Consulate in Havana has warned that it does not participate in the preparation of the ticket.
As published CyberCuba, the Cuban authorities have informed those affected that they cannot enter or leave the Island because the borders are closed due to the evolution of coronavirus infections, which this Monday left 93 new positives in the country, a record number since the start of the pandemic.
The reopening of the borders will come when Havana returns to normality, something that, for the moment, is not around the corner. The country's capital moved back to the limited indigenous transmission phase on Saturday, with a curfew starting at 11:00 pm, when public transport is suspended.
Also last Saturday, August 8, the Cuban authorities limited the mobility of interprovincial transportation in the Western zone of the country, which affects the provinces of Matanzas, Havana, Mayabeque, Artemisa and Pinar del Río. In this latter territory there will also be a curfew between twelve at night and six in the morning.
To enter or leave Havana you must have an authorization from the People's Power, which allows you to board an interprovincial bus. But to do so you must also have a negative PCR test. There have been cases in which passengers have had to confront the Cuban authorities to be able to return to their provinces.
Dozens of Cubans remain stranded abroad, waiting to return to Cuba. This is the case of Amelia (not her real name), a 60-year-old Havana native who arrived in Spain last March with the idea of traveling to the United States in April and returning to the island in September. She has not yet achieved it.
"The worst thing is the uncertainty that one has. You consider a long-term project and the situation changes for you. I thought that the borders opened on August 15 and that I could enter the country without going through a quarantine center in Havana, where you have to share collective bathrooms and that is what scares me the most. I am asthmatic and diabetic. At 60 years old, one is not willing to go through what we live with at 20. I came with a plan to be working in September. anguish that I feel because of the people I have in Cuba: my husband, my other son, my mother-in-law and my brother.
Iberia will resume international flights to Cuba when the Island's Government lifts restrictions. On August 1, the leading company in Spain carried out a humanitarian flight to Havana, under conditions similar to those that will take place this Wednesday, August 12.
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