Every Sunday, intensive sanitation work is undertaken in the most vulnerable communities of each Morón`s popular council in order to achieve an effective confrontation of Covid-19.

Although patients are given a nasopharyngeal exudate, which can be performed different types of determinations and thus diagnose the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, this is not the only procedure that is taken into account during the uncertainty of being positive or not.

I do not know if there are intelligent viruses (such as telephones, it seems that they are capable and not the manufacturers), however, I am certain that COVID-19 has sat at the other end of the seesaw and rises us and lowers us at will.  Maybe, we are the ones who do not put the necessary weight on our part.

Despite the limitations and lack of equipment and spare parts, the ambulance service personnel in the province of Ciego de Ávila maintain their usual vitality and are busy by moving emergencies and other patients, in the midst of the current epidemiological situation.

This Wednesday, about 20 carters gave the disposition to support the transfer of food to the districts of Ciro Redondo, given the need to maintain citizen nutrition during the 15 days of total closure of the territory.

"Morón`s Rooster has to sing again," Deputy Prime Minister, Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, said in a call to rescue the identity symbol and the historical memory of Morón city, with the hope that the sound breaks into the tranquility of dawn and sunsets to free a people and their leaders from lethargy again. Nowadays, the municipality is mired in neglect, immobility, bungling, and the lack of a sense of belonging and commitment to the city that welcomes them and cries out for multiple transformations.

In the last two weeks, there were 13 occupations of goods, although they do not represent a significant figure, by refering to the effort to restore order at the Roberto Rodríguez General Teaching Hospital, in the municipality of Morón, where the COVID-19 pandemic reveals accumulated harms.

Carlos Luis Garrido Pérez, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in Ciego de Ávila, evaluates community integration in the capital city based on the Covid-19 confrontation.

If Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, made something clear in a tour of popular councils in the north of Chambas municipality, many of the solutions to the pressing problems caused by COVID-19 can be solved from the endogenous with the assistance of all members of the community.

More than a hundred young people, including doctors in training and recent graduates, strengthen the primary health care system in the northern municipality of Morón with their performance.

I am not one of those who try to cover the sun with a finger or live behind the back of reality. However, I am reluctant to join the team of those who make firewood from the fallen tree and reduce their actions to promote excessive criticism, in inappropriate spaces, feeding - consciously or involuntarily - a fire that does not originate here and insists on burning and suffocating.

The Temporary Provincial Work Group in Ciego de Ávila intensifies every end of the week the actions that involve the majority of the agents of change in the community for the effective confrontation of Covid-19.

Dr. Ileydis attributes a determining role to the participation of the population and the territory in general. Photos: Pastor

I do not know if on a social scale it is happening as in the domino game or in the context of a good chess game among amateurs: the outsider clearly appreciates the plays or moves that the contestants fail to see...

Perhaps there has never been so much human feeling, in the form of love, gravitating over the Hotel Ciego de Ávila.

Fidel shares with the builders of the old Guitart-Cayo Coco hotel, first one inaugurated in the Jardínes del Rey destination, on November 12, 1993 (Photo: Nohema Díaz)

A writer friend portrayed him in his image and resemblance.  He wrote that the force of imagination drags Fidel into the unexpected and the greatest stimulus in his life is the risking emotion.

As of this Friday, August 13, the commercial offices of the Electricity Company will restart the services of paying electricity bills in Ciego de Ávila.

It is informed to the population that is supplied with water by the South Zone and resides in Vista Alegre that due to a large leakage in the 315 mm conduit, the delivery of water to this area of ​​the city has been limited.

The poor management of Morón municipality`s cadres contrasts with the reality in that territory, designated as the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party (CCPCC by its Spanish initials), emphasized during the control of the measures to reverse the epidemiological situation.

In the municipality of Morón, the antibody titers are close to trigger in the first inoculated patients with the anti-Covid-19 Abdala vaccine. Experts affirm that the effectiveness of the immunogenic medication begins 15 days after receiving the third dose.

Ministry of the Interior`s authorities prosecute unscrupulous individuals who were dedicated to extract drugs for the treatment of Covid-19 patients for their subsequent illegal sale at high prices in Ciego de Ávila.

More than 25 000 inhabitants of the municipality of Morón, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, completed the vaccination scheme with Abdala, as part of the national immunization strategy against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which maintains high transmission figures.

Cuban, so Cuban and native from Ciego de Ávila, Nilvia Liuba Bernar González is just like that, although life or destiny, as it is usually said, keep her residing in Spain.

In recent months, the visits to the Morón`s hospital have decreased, it is a reality, but the ingrained custom of attending without justified reasons, has not yet experienced the desired and necessary change to which our Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) aspires, in the midst of a health crisis, to contain the transmission of COVID-19.

Two weeks ago a desperate friend to save her mother, paid 1,500 pesos for a blister (three pills) of azithromycin; two days ago, a colleague from Radio Surco denounced on her Facebook profile the illegal sale of the same amount of the drug itself, at the price of 4000 pesos! It seems that the value of drugs in the informal market is proportional to the worsening of the pandemic.

This Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca emphasized: "Faced with serious problems, major decisions are imposed to help solve them," during the check on measures to reorganize the confrontation with Covid-19 at the Roberto Rodríguez Fernández General Teaching Hospital from the municipality of Morón.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca visits convalescent doctors in Ciego de Ávila, who once their health has been restored will mostly rejoin the confrontation and control of Covid-19.

EnZona, the digital platform monitored in the province by the Territorial Division of the Defense Information Technology Company (XETID by its Spanish initials), continues with the deployment of its network of virtual stores throughout Ciego de Ávila.

The province of Ciego de Ávila reported 1,050 new positive cases for COVID-19: Baraguá: 30, Bolivia: 19, Chambas: 88, the main municipality: 480, Ciro Redondo: 5, Florencia: 10, Majagua: 64, Morón: 217, Primero de Enero: 54 and Venezuela: 83; and 10 deceased people: the main municipality: 3, Morón: 4 and Chambas: 3.

A new type of messaging service will be implemented, starting this Saturday, for the sale and distribution of medicines in the TWENTY-FOUR pharmacies in the municipality of Ciego de Ávila.

A tweet from the President conjuring solidarity from Cuban to Cuban;  a government team leading the response from the roots;  doctors and nurses arriving from all over the country and overseas against fear or fatigue;  political and administrative authorities aware that you have to give the extra;  wonderful people with facemasks and love sharing what they have.  That's Ciego de Ávila right now.

The new contact of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, with the main political and administrative authorities of Ciego de Ávila and its ten municipalities, in the presence of senior leaders, representatives of ministries and specialists from sectors such as Health, at the country level, leaves no more room for the territory to just begin to reverse the very complicated situation in which it has once again plunged, from the epidemiological point of view.

Photo by Iván Paz Nogueira

A medical team, made up of 210 doctors from various provinces of the country who were carrying out an internationalist mission in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, arrived this morning in Ciego de Ávila to support the confrontation with COVID-19 in the territory.

According to the Minister of Transport, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, greater control and reduction of mobility in the province of Ciego de Ávila will rule from next Saturday, starting at 2:00 PM, with the complete elimination of the circulation of cars, motorcycles, carriages, bicycles or other vehicles unrelated to the COVID-19 confrontation.

As a true Ciego de Ávila`s citizen and lover of his land, even in the distance, he could not be shy about reaching out to the people who saw him born, so he joined the actions to support the people of his land, in the midst of a complex situation epidemiological. Moreover, he did it without ceasing to imprint his personal stamp on the initiative.

Teaching was not her true vocation, so after becoming a teacher she became a nurse, taking advantage of the possibilities that an emergent course offered her, and she fulfilled her desire to contribute to saving lives.

This Sunday, the Temporary Working Group`s indications have as particular aspect to go directly to the point and leave no room for "the after" with the goal of putting an end to a group of inadequacies to make the confrontation with the pandemic faster and more effective in Ciego de Ávila.

This Sunday, executives of Ciego de Ávila`s Community Services Agency denied the fake news circulating on social networks about alleged burials of those Covid-19 fatalities in the cemetery of the capital city.

During the day, there are 166 under 18 years-old children among those infected people (including three newborns), an indicator of all we do not do well from the point of view of prevention. I speak about it because in the face of the pandemic, all the experts and health authorities in the world agree that it is the first and decisive aspect. There will be those who criticize me for continuing to insist on self-care, when the transmission of the virus in the province leaves traces.

With great skills, she punctures the bulb, extracts the liquid, inserts the needle into the arm and injects the immunogenic medication accumulated in the syringe.  The process goes very fast.

This Wednesday, July 28, it is commemorated 100 years of the fruitful physical and spiritual existence of Melba Hernández Rodríguez del Rey, heroine of Moncada, of the clandestine fight, of the guerrilla warfare in Sierra Maestra and tireless fighter for all fair causes after the revolutionary triumph, on January 1, 1959.

This Monday, Ciego de Ávila`s people ratified in the José Martí park their unrestricted attachment to the patriotic legacy of the Moncada achievement as an authentic expression of the historical continuity with the humanist principles of Marti's ideology.

The conversion of premises belonging to the Provincial Softball Academy into a new area for the care of people from the community environment who present respiratory symptoms or similar ones, suspected people by coincidence with those that distinguish SARS-CoV-2, becomes the most recent expression of the contribution that Ciego de Ávila`s sport continues to offer in the common confrontation with Covid-19.

Due to its geographical location, the existence of a groundwater table with sufficient water reserves, the commitment to other provinces and the experience of workers in the agricultural sector, Ciego de Ávila is a decisive factor in production to supply itself with food and helps to others territories of the country.

An exponential growth in new cases of Covid-19 warns the health authorities for Ciego de Ávila, as it was announced this Wednesday in the Temporary Provincial Work Group.

The scientific and statistical models, the experts in health and related sciences, the critics of the affected population affirm it and they all agree on the fact that the speed of each action, accompanied by professionalism and the desire to defeat COVID- 19 are factors that must gain more space in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

More than 117,000 Ciego de Ávila`s citizens have applied at least one dose of the anti-COVID-19 Abdala vaccine, which represents 27 percent of the province's population.

That is how it is. With the forgiveness of bankers, economists, archaeologists, researchers, millionaires, oligarchs, companies, consortia ... THERE IS NO GREATER TREASURE IN THE WORLD THAN CHILDREN. It is a pity that so many governments forget that great truth or that, at least, they do not act in accordance with the internationally approved rights for children. Today, like every Sunday 3rd in July, my Cuba celebrates Children's Day.

In a song of peace, from brother to brother, from neighbor to neighbor, from people holding hands, the spaces and squares of the 10 Ciego de Ávila`s municipalities were transformed, with the epicenter in the Máximo Gómez Báez square, in the city of Ciego de Ávila, which brought together hundreds of worthy Cubans, in defense of the Revolution and peace.

By using three minibuses in Ciego de Ávila in direct confrontation with the pandemic, equipped in record time to offer ambulance services, the country continues to create bases to combat SARS-CoV-2 more effectively in the territories most affected by it.

It does not matter that, outside, the sky is cloudy.  The moment is of clarity, inside: in the brain of each person, in the country.

In order to culturally support the health intervention process with Abdala, the young creators of Ciego de Ávila founded the Thirty-Five Anniversary Artistic Brigade of the Hermanos Saiz Association.

The Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant, in Matanzas, the largest and most efficient unit block among its analogues in Cuba, successfully synchronized with the National Electric System during the afternoon of this Tuesday.

They have just arrived from other nations, where they have been exercising the noble mission of saving lives.  They are Health professionals, who, ignoring the exhaustion and accumulated hours of non-sleep, did not hesitate to raise their hands, as an expression of their willingness to go to provinces such as Ciego de Ávila and Matanzas, to join the confrontation with the Covid- 19.

As a premonition and confirmation that the events of Sunday, July 11, will have epidemiological consequences in Cuba and in Ciego de Ávila, the data reported at the close of the day produces that feeling of cold metal on the spine: 458 autochthonous cases, six deaths, 383 focus controls and 865 active patients.  Records that no one would want to read.

This Monday, the reduction to the minimum of mobility as one of the main measures to stop the current pandemic and citizen calm characterize the atmosphere in the municipality of Ciego de Ávila.

The decentralization of the sale of high-demand household appliances in freely convertible currency constitutes one of the actions that Caribe Stores implements to reduce citizen mobility in Ciego de Ávila.

Mermaid songs have always had double intentions.  Those who are now being listened to are no different.  They originate in the den of the main adversary of the Cuban Revolution.

This Thursday, April 8, Ciego de Ávila`s government will intensify the restrictive measures for the confrontation and control of the new coronavirus in order to reduce citizen mobility to the minimum.

More than 100 sites that will serve as vaccination centers in Ciego de Ávila, are currently in the process of certification and training of their staff, with a view to an upcoming health intervention with the anti-Covid-19 vaccine candidate Abdala, to groups of risk.

More than 470 health professionals and medical science students actively participate in the health intervention with the vaccine candidate Abdala in the municipality of Morón, Dr. Belkys Rafaela Chávez Fernández, director of Public Health in that territory, said.

To improve the work in the community, better manage of the pandemic from the organizational point of view, reduce mobility and achieve greater discipline of the population, Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella, Vice Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, made a call in the province.

The exhaustive review of the new Plan of measures to confront Covid-19 in the community transmission phase constitutes a guiding principle in the actions of the members of the Temporary Work Group in Ciego de Ávila. This was confirmed by Lilian González Rodríguez, second head of the Directorate of Attention to Local Bodies of the Popular Power, in the sustained exchange with this structure in Ciego de Ávila.

After two days of recess due to weather inclement, the health intervention in the population at risk with the vaccine candidate Abdala continued in the municipality of Morón, with the goal of reaching 24,000 injected people with the first dose on this day.

The measures approved for the financing of innovation in state-owned companies benefit strategic sectors defined in the National Development Program 2030, by increasing the possibilities of scientific-technological progress, as an alternative to achieve sustainability, efficiency and profitability.

Based on instructions from the Ministry of Public Health, the province of Ciego de Ávila is preparing to complete the health intervention in risk groups with the AntiCovid-19 vaccine candidate Abdala, Yipsi González Borroto, head of the
Vaccination Program at the territory, reported.

The prompt implementation of the plan of actions against disasters enabled the Ciego de Ávila`s Sugar Company to safeguard in time its productions, supplies and available resources.

During the last hours, the clouds and rains of tropical storm Elsa have affected the central region, which have become strong and intense in some locations, with the highest accumulated today in the province of Sancti Spiritus.

Ania Rosa Francisco Malde, Vice Governor of the People's Power

Some 18,980 people were evacuated in Ciego de Ávila, as well as the gastronomic units of the City Park and La Playita due to the possible hits of tropical storm Elsa.

Light and moderate rains, baptized in popular slang as chin chin, without considerable gusts of air, was what brought tropical storm Elsa to the province, as it passed through the adjacent seas of the southern coast of the territory.

Although tropical storm Elsa moves through the seas to the south of Cuba and must make landfall at noon at a point in the Ciénaga de Zapata, the cloud pack that accompanies it produces light and moderate rains from dawn in Ciego de Ávila where, for luck, apparently that will be all.

During the last hours, the cloudy and rains of tropical storm Elsa have affected the central region, which have become strong and intense in some locations, with the highest accumulated in the province of Sancti Spiritus.

Clouds and rains associated with tropical storm Elsa cover a large part of the archipelago, with the most active areas of drizzles, rains and some electrical storms affecting from Matanzas and Isla de La Juventud to the province of Granma.

The clouds associated with tropical storm Elsa cover the eastern and central regions and even the province of Matanzas.  Power bands are generating heavy drizzles and rains over the eastern half of the country.  At the Cilantro dam, in Pilón, it continued to rain and in just four hours 122 millimeters accumulated, also in the last six hours 92 millimeters accumulated in Cabo Cruz, both locations in the province of Granma.

The Majagua River already played a trick on the inhabitants of this municipality to the southwest of Ciego de Ávila, almost eight months ago, when tropical storm Eta unleashed all its anger here to make it overflow in a far-reaching way that not even its long-lived people remember a similar event.

The clouds associated with tropical storm Elsa cover a large part of the eastern and central regions of Cuba. Bands are generating heavy drizzles and rains over Granma, Las Tunas, Camagüey, Ciego de Ávila and Sancti- Spíritus. In the Cilantro dam, located in Pilón, Granma, a cumulative 66 millimeters was recorded in two hours. Just in 3 hours, 55 millimeters were recorded in Cabo Cruz, Granma and 32 millimeters in Contramaestre, Santiago de Cuba.

The staff of the Cuban Hotel Chain in the province of Ciego de Ávila ensures the protection of clients and material resources of its facilities in the tourist destination Jardines del Rey, in the face of the proximity of tropical storm Elsa, which could increase the swell, the rainfall and the intensity of the winds.

The cloud bands of tropical storm Elsa are affecting the eastern region of Cuba as well as the provinces from Sancti Spíritus to Camagüey. In the south eastern portion, sustained winds with tropical storm force have been registered during the morning, between 60 and 70 kilometers per hour, with gusts of up to 90 kilometers per hour.

The cloud bands from Tropical Storm Elsa are affecting the eastern region of Cuba.  In the southeastern portion, sustained winds with tropical storm force have been registered during the morning, between 60 and 70 kilometers per hour, with gusts of up to 90 kilometers per hour.

After a wait that lasted since last February due to COVID-19, workers at Jardines del Rey airport received, with joy, tourists from Canada, a fact that marks the resumption of recreational operations towards that destination, one of the most promising in the Caribbean.

Peaceful sea in Júcaro in the early hours of the morning this Sunday

In Júcaro, the fishing village to the southern region of Ciego de Ávila most prone to coastal flooding, "the bell has already been rang", which in times of tropical cyclones it means the evacuation of people.

In recent hours, Tropical Storm Elsa has continued moving to the west northwest, now at 20 kilometers per hour, with little change in intensity.  Since the end of the morning, the cloudy areas with strong activity of storms and rains are concentrating around the center.  Its central pressure is 1007 hectoPascal and the maximum sustained winds remain in the order of 100 kilometers per hour.

The network of stations and the Provincial Meteorological Center (CMP by its Spanish initials) of Ciego de Ávila guarantee permanent monitoring of weather variables to keep the population informed and facilitate decision-making by the Defense Council in the presence of tropical storm Elsa that keeps the territory in the Alarm phase.

In recent hours, Tropical Storm Elsa has continued to move west-northwest, at 22 kilometers per hour, with little change in organization and intensity.  Its central pressure is 1006 hectoPascal and the maximum sustained winds are maintained at 100 kilometers per hour.

During this afternoon, Tropical Storm Elsa has remained with little change in organization and intensity, although in the last hours the clouds around the center have increased.  This system has maximum sustained winds of 110 kilometers per hour and higher gusts.  The central pressure has risen slightly to 1000 hectoPascal.

During this morning, Hurricane Elsa has continued to weaken slightly and is now a tropical storm again. It has maximum sustained winds of 110 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts and a central pressure of 999 hectoPascal.

A few days ago, she appeared on Facebook, it was her birthday and the photos published brought back the memory of the helpful neighbor, revelry and with contagious joy, of the community where I resided most of my life. Elsa is one of those people you miss because they know how to leave a mark, due to her simplicity and humility.

The Provincial Defense Council of Ciego de Ávila activated a plan of measures since Friday night with a view to guarantee the protection of human lives and material goods against the possible impacts that the cyclonic organism Elsa can leave as it passes through the territory of Ciego de Ávila.

Hurricane Elsa during the early morning has continued to weaken slightly. It has maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts and a central pressure of 998 hectoPascal.

After the approval in recent days of a new Plan to confront COVID-19 in Cuba, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz announced the decision to send temporary work commissions to the most complex provinces: Matanzas, Ciego de Ávila, Camagüey, Santiago de Cuba, Pinar del Río and Mayabeque.

Hydraulic resources specialists qualify as strategic the Waste Treatment Plant (PTR by its Spanish initials) of that isle in the north of Ciego de Ávila, in the testing phase of its systems and about to come into operation, for being an elementary pillar in the preservation of the environment and the care of the ecosystem in that area of ​​tourism development.

Around fifty thousand people from the municipality of Morón, north of Ciego de Ávila, will receive the first dose of the Abdala Vaccine Candidate against Covid-19 as of this July 1st.

The Institute of Meteorology reports that tropical depression number five continued to organize and intensify better during the night and early morning, since abundant clouds with numerous activity of drizzles, rains and thunderstorms mantain.

The Temporary Working Group for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus, headed by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, approved this Tuesday a new Plan to confront COVID-19 in Cuba, taking into account the complex epidemiological situation in the nation, characterized by high levels of transmission of the disease.

Sixty years have passed since that historic exchange between Fidel and a group of intellectuals (June 16, 23 and 30, 1961), in an environment that Nicolás Guillén, Alejo Carpentier, Alfredo Guevara, Miguel Barnet and other personalities would remember for posterity as of total transparency.

This Wednesday, June 29, the realization of a dynamic test will allow verifying the organization and operation of the Public Health System in order to begin the health intervention with the anti-Covid-19 Abdala vaccine in the municipality of Morón.

This beginning of the week, if you walk around the Roberto Rodríguez Fernández High School, in Morón, you will be able to see up close what has been bustling in this city since the health intervention was announced on Wednesday: the expectation.

This Sunday, the first batches of the against-covid-19 vaccine candidate Abdala for the health intervention in the population at risk of the municipality of Morón arrived in the province, amid a worsening of the epidemiological situation of the territory, which reported a record of confirmed for one day with 242.

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 During the work session of the Temporary Group in charge of articulating and supervising the measures to combat Covid-19, Ania Rosa Francisco Malde, Deputy Governor of Ciego de Ávila, called to redouble efforts and demand in each of the actions that are carrying out by this body and in the same way, she asked to be transmitted in each work center, community and family nucleus, the need to comply with social distancing.

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Coastal communities on the north and south coasts of the province of Ciego de Ávila will suffer partial or total effects in the medium and long term, as a consequence of the rise in mean sea level, caused by climate change, Vania Vidal Olivera, researcher of the Center for Biofood Research (CIBA) warned.

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The Ciego de Ávila Electricity Union informs that the effects on the electricity service will continue in the coming days, due to technological limitations in the thermal generation blocks, the units that are under maintenance, the breakdowns that occurred in the last hours and the limitations for the distribution of fuel to generators of distributed generation.