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Only 5% of Pinar del Río has electrical service after Laura passed through Cuba

The Internet and telephone service in Pinar del Río also suffered damages.


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Only 5% of residents in Pinar del Río have electrical service after the passage of tropical storm Laura through that western province of Cuba, where this morning its winds will no longer be felt, the Provincial Defense Council reported this Tuesday.

"95% of the province of Pinar del Río has electrical damage. Now there are three lines with breakdowns that are the priority: that of the Abel Santamaría Hospital, that of the Pepe Portilla Pediatric Hospital and that of the Dairy Combine," said Yosvany Torres Director of the Basic Electrical Organization in that province.

In Pinar del Río there are 26 transformers reported and the Call Center remains enabled, details the state media Radio Guama.

These electricity problems affect 39 sites in Pinar del Río, where Internet service also has problems. Journalist Belkys Pérez Cruz from the state telecenter TelePinar He explained that "39 2G, 27 3G and 15 4G radio bases are without service. There are also 105 Wi-Fi sites in the province without service and nearly 4,000 basic telephone services affected."

Clients of the state communications monopoly in Pinar del Río will present problems in this service because "in most localities a few radio bases are assuming the traffic of all those that normally exist," said Enrique Reyes Pérez, head of the services department. mobile phones of the territorial division of the Cuban Telecommunications Company S.A. (ETECSA).

The head of the Communications Subgroup, Manuel Milián, specified that 3,000 basic telephone services are interrupted and there are breakdowns in the lines due to trees falling into telephone downpipes, he adds. Radio Guama.

At the moment there are no estimated figures for damage to agriculture or the educational sector., although in the latter they are not great, pointed out the head of the Education, Culture and Sports Subgroup, Evelio Herrera Padrón.

Tree falls occurred in the San Juan y Martínez municipality, Wind gusts of 102 km/h and 26 mm of water were recorded, noted journalist Rosalía Suárez Said on her Facebook page.

The Government of Cuba preliminarily estimates that More than 1,000 homes are affected by Cyclone Laura, which continues its advance through the Gulf of Mexico and moves away from the island.

The Civil Defense has already established the recovery phase from Matanzas to Guantánamo starting at 7 a.m. this Tuesday. Pinar del Río, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Havana and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud were still in alarm, until the closing of this news.

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