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.

Details on the temporary suspension of acceptance of dollars in cash.

-The cards in MLC will continue to function, as up to now. Nevertheless, dollars cannot be deposited in cash.

I cannot imagine Cuba in any other place, other than being "crossed" in the Caribbean Sea, at the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico, almost next to the United States, that powerful country that with waste of dislike forces the small island to grow in punishment, for the only fact of choosing the path of sovereignty; for building a Cuban democracy in front of the arrogant one.

Enthusiasts of the activity, they define that mural art as all that painting that is made on a virgin barrier or wall.

The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States government makes it difficult to repair equipment and tracks to guarantee safety and quality in rail services, Tania Estrella González Sosa, deputy director of the Cuban Central-East Company of Railways, denounced.

This will be another day of celebration in which circumstances force us to avoid the usual and genuine manifestations of fellowship and attachment, but it is essential to convey, in addition to congratulations, sincere gratitude to those fighting men, who accompany us day after day.

A day for dad? Why only one, if I want all of them, even those that I will not be able to live in order to love you, take care of you and protect you as the child that you will always be for me. Yes, the child who makes me understand the paternal instincts of his grandfather, always pending, as if I had not grown up, although now the grandchildren monopolize his attention and generate the greatest concerns.

This June 17, historians began the day in which each year special events are dedicated to the work of these professionals, throughout and width of the country, with a floral offering in the park that dignifies the Generalissimo Máximo Gómez, in the Ciego de Ávila`s capital.

The Cuban Travel Agency Cubanacán Jardines del Rey, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, ensures compliance with the measures guided by the Cuban government to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, through the sale of tourist packages for the isolation of travelers residing in the national territory that arrive through the international airports of Cayo Coco and Varadero.

With the purpose of reinforcing the control and regulating the use of water, specialists from the Hydraulic Exploitation Company (EAH by its Spanish initials) of this province are going through the final phase of the new contracting system of the service of provision of the liquid to agricultural producers.

With a unique architecture and nestled in a paradisiacal place within the gigantic Eden that is the Jardines del Rey Archipelago, the emblematic Colonial Hotel is presented as an attractive option for travelers residing in Cuba, who arrive through the Cayo Coco international airport, comply your period of isolation in spacious, comfortable rooms with fascinating views.

The Estero Socorro Dike, traversable along the 22 kilometers, is one of the most important works in the Great North Wetland of Ciego de Ávila

Forces belonging to the Hydraulic Resources system completed the repair of the Estero Socorro Dike, Ramsar site since 2002, and one of the works with the greatest impact on the recovery and maintenance of the biodiversity of the Great North Wetland of Ciego de Ávila.

A local development project could return, within a few years and more systematically, the taste of fresh or processed pork to the inhabitants of the municipality of Morón, where the Government, the Biofood Research Center (CIBA by its Spanish initials) and territorial producers, are integrated to achieve food sovereignty and materialize the five kilograms per capita of meat, monthly.

COVID-19 is similar to the Never-Ending story. Do you remember it? An endless story, capable of exasperating. In one year and three months, the Cuban nation has allocated more than 300 million dollars to the fight against the pandemic, whose repeated scourges accentuate the health crisis, triggering the exacerbation of economic and social problems.

This Thursday June 10, the meeting of the Secretarial Work of the Central Committee and political leaders from the Government Office and People Organizations from Ciego de Ávila, headed by the First Secretary and President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez, with the goal of analyzing the projections taking into account the guidelines of the 8th Congress of the PCC.

The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States government limits and increases the cost of the acquisition of technological resources, and makes difficult to access information and exchange with professionals from other countries, workers from the scientific sector in the province of Ciego de Ávila denounced it.

Rafael Pérez Carmenate, delegate of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA by its Spanish initials), emphasized that the imperialist siege forces to make purchases in geographically distant markets, such as Asia, to acquire technology, which leads to an increase in costs per concept freight.

 "The Cuban scientific community has restricted visits to more than 200 sites on the Internet and there are videoconferencing platforms that are prohibited for our country, issues that impede access to knowledge, making difficult to substantiate research and exchange with specialists from other countries", he added.

The pandemic deprived me of the opportunity to see her face while answering my questions, however, in the audios sent by WhatsApp I could feel her voice, taken by passion when talking about Tina Modotti, another of the "ways" to get to Mella, if not the other way around, judging from her own words.

Works in the West sector of Playa Norte, in Paredón Grande Cay

Playa Norte, on the Paredón Grande Cay, has received more than 43,000 cubic meters of sand to date, with total restoration of the morphological parameters in the first 235 linear meters of that site, where specialized forces and Cuban scientists carry out one of the actions most important in the country in favor of the Life Task.

In the 2017-2021 four-year period, progress in the implementation of the State Plan to confront climate change (Life Task) was made in the province of Ciego de Ávila, by implementing 84 percent of the planned measures, despite the intensification of the US blockade and the effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A look at the government services oriented from the internet, to facilitate the request for attention and issuance of necessary documents to the population for certain processes, constituted the online seminar given this Friday to representatives of the Provincial Government of People's Power of the province of Ciego de Ávila, through the Jitsi videoconferencing platform.

Next Monday, June 7, new measures to restrict movement and epidemiological control will come into force in order to reinforce physical isolation in the municipality of Morón and the capital town, because of the probability of a new outbreak and the worsening of the epidemiological situation in the province of Ciego de Ávila caused by COVID-19.

The Raw Materials Recovery Company (ERMP by its Spanish initials) of the province of Ciego de Ávila ensures the availability of glass containers for food, beverage and drug processing entities, and glass fibers for the manufacture of industrial products.

Thrilling and compelling. This is how he looked again during the opening, work and closing sessions of the 8th Congress of the PCC. Yes, no one had any doubt that the words expressed on April 16, 2021, were the result of the conviction that does not abandon him: “(…) as long as I live I will be ready with my foot on the stirrup to defend the homeland, the Revolution and socialism stronger than ever ”That's him.

The Biofood (CIBA by its Spanish initials) and Biofactory centers project the in vitro reproduction of beach rice to guarantee plant coverage in the coastal areas of Jardines del Rey benefited with dumping of sand and the elimination of invasive species in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

Part of the route of the new conductor is through a rough terrain (Photo: Ortelio)

The new pipeline under construction from the largest drinking water storage tank, on the island of Turiguanó, to the area known as La Bandera, located in the south of Cayo Coco, is among the largest projects related to the completion of the hydraulic infrastructure of the wide tourist region, in the north of Ciego de Ávila.

The National Soil Conservation and Improvement Program benefits the province of Ciego de Ávila, where degradation is reduced by more than 39 000 hectares, according to a report from the Provincial Soil Institute (IPS by its Spanish initials), belonging to the Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG).

This Friday, the first store of a commercial chain f musical instruments for the central region of the country, with the name of Mayohucan, was inaugurated in Ciego de Ávila.

“The North American government voted against the approval of the Mi Costa project, supported by the Green Climate Fund to increase the capacity for adaptation and resilience of 1.3 million people in population settlements located in more than 1,300 kilometers of the southern coast of the Island, including the town of Júcaro, in the province of Ciego de Ávila”, Rafael Pérez Carmenate, delegate of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA by its Spanish initials) in the province of Ciego de Ávila, denounced.

This Sunday, the provinces of Cienfuegos and Ciego de Ávila were in charge of transmitting to the world the Cuban position, against the hostile, intensified and criminal imperialist blockade, with which they joined the claim made by thousands of people in numerous cities of the United States and in various parts of the planet.

The infrastructural and technological development, planned until 2030, will allow the Industrial Fishing Company of the province of Ciego de Ávila (EPIVILA by its Spanish initials) the sustained increase in the production of fish and their derivatives, with the aim of contributing to the food security of the population.

The bottle wash represented a saving of 23 000 euros for the Ciego de Ávila`s Raw Materials Recovery Company.

Despite the obsolescence of the machinery and the limitations imposed by the US blockade, the Raw Materials Recovery Company of the province of Ciego de Ávila maintains high technical availability, as a result of the work carried out by the movement of innovators and rationalizers.

The draft laws that will govern the operation of the Cuban judicial system increase responsibility and bet on a more rigorous action by prosecutors, based on principles such as political rationality, equity and social justice.

“We are obliged to change the way of thinking, acting and conducting ourselves to advise and accompany, in the correct way, the directions of the territorial governments in the implementation of the development strategy to boost the economy and face the global crisis caused by COVID -19."

The food production, the promotion of exports and the improvement of the investment process are defined as priorities of the province of Ciego de Ávila to implement the economic and social development strategy in the 2021-2022 period.

In the midst of a complex epidemiological situation and in view of the proximity of the hurricane season, the exercise dubbed Meteoro 2021 is carried out, on its 35th anniversary, to strengthen the capacity to face natural, technological and health disasters, fundamentally the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and arboviruses.

Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa visited in this province advanced producers in the livestock branch, areas of the Zaza-Ciego de Ávila canal, the Ciegoplast company and the only mini-industry in the territory specialized in the production of coconut candy, important committed stablishments with the development of the territory and the country.

The branches of the Popular Savings Bank in Ciego de Ávila take extreme biosecurity protocols to guarantee the vitality of their services on the 38th anniversary of this financial institution.

The population of the city of Ciego de Ávila is informed that, after the recovery in the generation of electricity and the criteria of the Forecast Center of the Institute of Meteorology, it is planned for this Tuesday, May 25 at 5:00 a.m. the beginning of the works for the rehabilitation of the Hydraulic Loop which will last until May 30 at 12:00 p.m., for which the water supply service to the City of Ciego de Ávila will be paralyzed, therefore the population must take all storage and saving measures until the work is completed.

Through an adequate implementation of the Ordering Task, the Raw Materials Recovery Company (ERMP by its Spanish initials) of the province of Ciego de Ávila maintains favorable financial indicators and a working environment to be inserted in the economic and social development strategy of the country.

For eleven years, it has been monopolizing the attention of children, adolescents, youth and adults in the Ciego de Ávila Zoo Park Complex. It is not about a week or two, so it is still news that the giraffe Felix traveled on a journey of more than 400 kilometers this Wednesday, to the National Zoological Park, located in the Cuban capital.

The workers of the Community Services Company in Ciego de Ávila, Comcávila, deserved the status of the National Vanguard collective of the Public Administration Union due to their comprehensive results during the last year.

The recycling of steel and copper allows the Raw Materials Recovery Company (ERMP by its Spanish initials) of the province of Ciego de Ávila to achieve productive linkages with entities that ensure the national housing construction program.

Food sovereignty and nutritional education are priorities defined by the Cuban government in the economic and social development plan until 2030, Reina de la Caridad Torres Pérez and Rafael Pérez Carmenate, deputies and members of the Agri-Food Commission of the National Assembly of the Popular Power, ratified.

The Moncada program became a strategic and tactical guide in the vertiginous process of the country's socioeconomic transformations. Just two months after assuming power, the revolutionary government proclaimed different measures with the aim of rescuing national sovereignty, eliminating underdevelopment and establishing social equality.

The population of the city of Ciego de Ávila is informed that due to the electricity generation situation that temporarily crosses the country, an issue that does not allow our users to store as much water as possible to face the supply deficit that will be produced by the interruption of the pumping; it was decided by the highest political and government authorities as well as the INRH (by its Spanish initials) in the province; suspend the rehabilitation works in the Skirted Hydraulic Loop and areas of the South of the City that were planned to be carried out as of next Tuesday, May 18.

The health intervention process with the vaccine candidate Abdala contributes to strengthening the immune system of the more than 2,000 workers at the Roberto Rodríguez Fernández General Teaching Hospital, aimed at caring for suspected and confirmed patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The progressive increase of the Nauta Hogar service in the municipality of Morón responds to the political will to advance in the process of computerization of society, in order to promote the massive and orderly use of Information and Communication Technologies (TICs by its Spanish initials) in daily life.

The population of the city of Ciego de Ávila is informed that, due to large-scale and complex rehabilitation works in the Skirted Hydraulic Loop and southern areas of the City, the water distribution cycles in all the areas of the provincial capital will be affected.

The anti-Covid-19 vaccine preparations registered by the World Health Organization (WHO), including those of Cuban origin, contribute to the strengthening of the immune system, but they do not prevent the spread of the disease, therefore, it is necessary to maintain hygienic-sanitary measures.