A yellow tape prohibited, for almost two years, access to the equipment of the small and popular children’s park installed inside the Carlos III square. This Friday, and with the modification of the old devices that worked with the extinct CUC currency, it has been reopened to the public.
Despite the staggered opening of public and private services last November, this area of the store remained inaccessible.
A window installed in the middle of the devices facilitates the exchange of bills for the 5-peso coins, with which the devices start to work. Minors, however, cannot enjoy some of them, which, despite the opening of the place, carry a sticker informing them that they do not work.
“But you better bring it tomorrow or the day after, taking advantage of the fact that it’s the weekend, because it opened today and there are already broken devices”
“They’ve already opened the little park so you can bring your child,” a grandmother told her daughter on the phone, “but you’d better bring him tomorrow or the day after, taking advantage of the fact that it’s the weekend, because it opened today and there are already broken appliances, so in a I’m sure there aren’t any left working”.
The reopening in the midst of the peak of the pandemic due to the omicrom strain that is experienced on the Island also worries many of the parents who came to the park today. “Disinfect the girl’s hands with alcohol, so that we don’t get sick,” a man asked his wife, insisting on a measure repeated ad nauseam also by the Cuban authorities, despite scientific evidence that covid is not transmitted by contact, but by the air.
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