Cuba raised to three vFatalities after the passage of Hurricane Ianwhile the recovery tasks continue this Thursday, when the country is almost totally paralyzed due to the lack of electricity.
the official medium Cubadebate realized of the third fatality, which adds to the two deaths already reported the day before, after Ian crossed the western extreme from south to north with category three, leaving notable destruction with its intense rains and winds of up to 200 kilometers per hour.
The Cuban government is following up on the count of the extensive damage and organizing the tasks of clearing debris and recovery, with special emphasis on the National Electric System (SEN), which totally collapsed on Tuesday, leaving the island in the dark.
The state Electric Union (UNE) explained that it is returning the current to small “microsystems”with the aim of connecting the regions little by little, but without deadlines for its completion.
The technical director of the UNE, Lázaro Guerra, assured on Cuban state television that the system will gradually recover, dividing the country into three zones, and that interconnection will then be considered, something that may happen this Thursday.
At the moment, a balance of material damage has not been released, which is considerable throughout the western third of the country, but especially in the province of Pinar del Río, where 48% of the housing stock, about 50,000 homes, are affected, according to point the agency Eph. In some municipalities this rate rises to 80%, according to official media.
From your social networks,TV Pinar reported that the municipalities of San Juan y Martínez, San Luis and Pinar del Río were the most affected by the Meteor. Of 2,953 people evacuated, 778 are unable to return to their homes and the authorities guaranteed them food and other services.
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The damage caused by this hurricane also extends to the crop fields, for which there is no provisional balance either. The state company Tabacuba reported that some 5,000 warehouses for drying tobacco leaves were damaged.
The hurricane violently hit Cuba, a country already plunged into a serious multifaceted crisis, with long daily blackouts, shortages of basic products such as food and medicine, and galloping inflation.
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