This Thursday, the first dose of Sovereign 02 is inoculated, from to Ciego de Ávila`s infants aged between two and 10 years, considered in the third and last group of the school vaccination campaign, included in the national immunization strategy against COVID -19.

Although in recent days the province of Ciego de Ávila maintains a trend towards stability and reduction in the number of daily detected cases of COVID-19, it is necessary, in certain territories, an action with a greater opportunity to stop the chains of contagion.

Since Antonio Moltó said that phrase, the "glorious old men" remained as a code of affection between José Aurelio Paz and me, to the point that there was no call, message on Facebook, gathering or SMS that did not start or end with it. We assumed it with all the jocularity that was possible, knowing that in him all the glory was consummated and that the years had whitened his head, but not his memory or his heart.

Photos: Courtesy of El Corazón de Morón Aid Group.

At first, it was just a family initiative, with great intentions and promoted by the youngest members, who decided to help those sick with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in the midst of a pandemic peak. Later, goodwill became "contagious", relatives and friends joined, until a WhatsApp group emerged, currently with more than 200 members, identified by the name of El corazón de Morón.

Although the municipality of Ciego de Ávila has shown a notable decrease in positive cases for COVID-19 in recent days, the reality is that we must continue to work with emphasis on the actions of community work groups in order to arrive as quickly as possible to control the disease.

The internal functioning of the Cuban Communist Party and its impact on the community focused the analysis of the debate on the militancy in Ciego de Ávila based on the implementation of the ideas, concepts and guidelines of the eighth Congress.

The Federation of Cuban Women, as an organization that does not stop its work, has just started the political process called Updating and improving the work of the FMC.

The adoption of new strategies for the collection of solid waste, based on the use of alternative means of transport and the operation of integrated community work, should reverse, in the short term, the difficulties with communal hygiene in the municipality of Morón.

This Friday, more than 25 000 Ciego de Ávila`s students, aged between 11 and 18, will start vaccination with the immunogenic Soberana 02, according to Yipsi González Borroto, head of the Provincial Immunization Program.

The execution of a sustainability program at the Roberto Rodríguez General Teaching Hospital makes it possible to recover income capacities and acquires new equipment to raise the quality of services in the municipality of Morón.

The excessive increase in my electricity bill represents nothing compared to the 14 000 pesos in the monthly bill of a young woman who lamented after not having found a solution, not even a convincing answer, in the Office of Attention to the Population of the South Commercial Unit of the Electric Power Plant, in the municipality of Morón.

Undeniable is the fact of the decrease in confirmed positive cases in the last 15 days (260 this Monday) in Ciego de Ávila. It is also - and worrisome - that six municipalities (out of 10) maintain their incidence rate above the average rate for the province, which classifies them as high risk.

A purebred brown skin man, Ineldo Borrero Sarría, gets excited and laughs when I ask him what the Rooster of Morón means to him and to be able to direct the restoration of the monument where the fighting animal that represents the culture and identity of his town.

Air Canada, emblematic airline that maintains the transportation of tourists to Cuba from the northern country

Starting next November, the tourist destinations Jardines del Rey, Holguín, Cayo Santa María and Varadero will be the new itineraries of Sunwing, a leading group in trips to Cuba from Canada, from the cities of Ottawa and Quebec to the Greater Antilles.

Taking into account my urgency, Ilexi, was not satisfied with providing insulin and looked for a way to get it from Ciego de Ávila to Morón. Although I did not request them, he regretted forgetting to send me syringes: “Tell me if you don't have, my cousin come these days, and I have glyburide in case you need it. Don't be ashamed”, she expresses with a kindness and sweetness that are revealed through Messenger.

More than 3,800 Ciego de Ávila`s students will be immunized as part of the vaccination strategy for pediatric patients, which prioritizes, in a first stage, learners of terminal years of Higher Middle and Technical-Professional education.

If some confirmation was needed to understand that the pandemic is happening here, barley in the "severe circumstance of irresponsibility everywhere", it is enough to investigate problems in six municipalities Ciego de Ávila.

A decongested hospital and numbers that after the hundreds of July no longer scare, it may be the illusions that make you think that Morón has controlled the pandemic.

15 days ago, the closure of the municipality of Ciro Redondo allowed to reduce mobility, both of people and transport, and with this decrease the incidence rate of positive cases to COVID-19 in this territory, located in the center of the province of Ciego of Ávila.

Deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca called for the promotion of construction work in the Humedal Grande Park, a local development project in the municipality of Morón, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, which will take advantage of natural values ​​to promote ecological and cultural tourism with local and foreign clients.

The reinforcement of the security and protection work at the Roberto Rodríguez General Teaching Hospital, in the municipality of Morón, intended for suspected and confirmed patients with COVID-19, makes it possible to reduce unnecessary access in the midst of a complex epidemiological situation, and to confront harmful behaviors with economic and social impact.

The development of symptoms such as cough and fever, after the inoculation of the Abdala vaccine, is associated with the fact that the subjects received the immunogenic medication during the incubation period of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in circumstances marked by the increase in infections during the community transmission phase.

Plastic 350 is the ninth boat repaired in the dry dock, which will be sailing in the next few hours (Photo: Ortelio)

The repair and sailing of eight vessels dedicated to the fishing of scale species, resources saving and reduction of the cost and time of rehabilitation are the main advantages of the large dry dock recently recovered in the Base Business Unit (UEB) Júcaro Marine-Fishing Fleet.

This Monday, Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, in exchange with directors of administrative, government and health institutions, made a call to strengthen the impact and scope of the Community Work Groups in Majagua.

This Sunday, Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, vice president of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, continued the cycle of visits to places of social and economic interest in Ciego de Ávila and vulnerable areas, together with the National Working Group to fight against Covid- 19.

The system of attention to citizenship has to undergo a radical transformation, essential in the management to strengthen the Cuban model of socialist democracy, Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, deputy prime minister of the Republic of Cuba, stressed once again, on a working tour of the popular council Máximo Gómez, north of the province of Ciego de Ávila.

On Thursday afternoon, Dr. Ileana Morales Suárez, director of Science and Technological Innovation of the Ministry of Public Health, acknowledged a slowdown phase of COVID-19 in Ciego de Ávila.

Builders, students, workers, intellectuals, scientists, athletes, soldiers and young people from different sectors strengthen ties and merge in multisector effort as members of the Youth Social Work Brigades (BJTS by its Spanish initials), which in Ciego de Ávila work in 21 vulnerable communities.

The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television disappears, and the new structure is founded.  Photo: Cuban Television Portal

This Tuesday, the creation in Cuba of the Institute of Information and Social Communication was made official with the publication of Decree-Law 41/2021, in the Official Gazette of the Republic No. 96, which provides details on the new structure.

The optimization of medicinal oxygen in hospitals and care centers for patients with acute respiratory infections is a strategic priority of the Temporary Work Group in Ciego de Ávila.

On January 29, 2021, Decree Law 31 was published in Extraordinary Official Gazette No. 8, which establishes the fines to be applied for infractions of sanitary measures for the prevention and confrontation of COVID-19.

Rigid and vigorous, the Rooster wants to sing again to a town that also seems dull and needs to regain its strength to save its children. Enthroned on his hill, it wishes to shake Morón, in a call to integrate community factors as a viable option to meet the goals that will allow to overcome the pandemic.

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.