{"id":226853,"date":"2020-08-31T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=226853"},"modified":"2020-08-31T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:02:12","slug":"living-in-cuba-in-times-of-pandemic-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/living-in-cuba-in-times-of-pandemic-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Cuba in times of pandemic (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 11, 2020, the first cases of the new coronavirus were reported in Cuba. From that moment on, the pandemic started spreading throughout the island and its provinces<\/a>. Faced with a problem that had already shown its scope in the world, the Cuban authorities started taking measures at the national level, as part of a strategy favorably assessed<\/a> by the Pan American and World Health Organization (PAHO\/WHO).<\/p>\n

The closure of the borders, the mandatory use of the mask and the prohibition of interprovincial travel are three central variables in the epidemiological management of the Cuban strategy to deal with the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Measures like these were complemented by others at a territorial level, aimed at contextualizing the general threat presented by COVID-19 in the specific conditions of the provinces and municipalities. That is, to organize life in its daily rhythm, crossed by two axes.<\/p>\n

The first are those structural problems of Cuban society such as inequality and scarcity, exacerbated by the pandemic, which raised certain daily difficulties to the category of public health risk<\/a>, such as lines to purchase basic need products. The second is the particular characteristics of the territories, the evolution of COVID-19 in them and the authorities\u2019 actions in the face of the situation.<\/p>\n

As a whole, these two axes build shared realities for the entire Cuban population and also differences between provinces and even municipalities. Thus, for example, in some places the purchase in stores of the CUC marketing network is controlled through the ration book, while in others the matter is left as usual.<\/p>\n

A little over five months after the first case, while some provinces take action against the rebound<\/a> they are experiencing in controlling the pandemic, others continue their return to the \u201cnew normal.\u201d With this series, OnCuba<\/strong> approaches the different realities of the Cuban provinces, starting with three that don\u2019t report cases by now: Cienfuegos, Holgu\u00edn and Granma.<\/p>\n

Cienfuegos: restricted access<\/strong><\/p>\n

The province of Cienfuegos has a total of 24 COVID-19 positive cases<\/a>, of which 23 recovered and 1 died. It entered post-COVID-19 recovery phase 3 on July 20, which would imply that \u201cthe streets gradually resume their normality,\u201d as the local press<\/a> reported on that day. It also warned about the need to maintain the perception of risk.<\/p>\n

On August 11, the Provincial Defense Council decided to strengthen the health measures related to the prevention of COVID-19<\/a>, \u201cin keeping with the current epidemiological situation, complicated in recent days with the increase in confirmed cases in Havana, Artemisa and Villa Clara.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given this, nine screening points were reactivated on the main access roads to the province, as stated by Dr. Arelys Crespo Garc\u00eda, head of the Surveillance Department, to the newspaper Cinco de Septiembre<\/em>. The official clarified that the measure \u201cdoes not mean that entry is prohibited, but it does make it possible to detect any alarm symptoms in time.\u201d<\/p>\n

On June 7, when the national press<\/a> reflected the good management of the province, which on that date accumulated 40 days without positive cases, it reiterated the role of those screening points. \u201cActiva continues surveillance at the borders with neighboring territories, where several screening points are set up, in order to prevent the arrival of COVID-19 patients in Cienfuegos. Vital signs, temperature are taken in these points, and the reason for traveling and address where they are staying are recorded to identify possible suspects in case of new outbreaks. In addition to fumigating vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

OnCuba<\/strong> was able to verify that in one of those screening points, the one located in Marta Abreu, on June 1, a Cienfuegos address on the identity card was required or a justified a case of force majeure to enter the province.<\/p>\n

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Screening point in Cienfuegos. Photo: Municipal Assembly of People\u2019s Power.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the province reinforces its borders in view of the rebounds in others, the people recovered from COVID-19 continue to be a source of attention for the H\u00e9roes de Playa Gir\u00f3n Specialized Outpatient Center (CEA), located in the provincial capital. Center specialists told Juventud Rebelde<\/a><\/em> about their work to analyze possible physical and mental consequences of the disease. Dr. Julio H\u00e9ctor Jovas Due\u00f1as, specialist in Internal Medicine, stated that \u201cthe analysis and clinical examination showed high levels of liver enzymes as sequelae, as occurs with some arboviruses, neuromuscular damage and myopathy.\u201d He also argued that among the symptoms patients referred to the medical team are kidney, digestive and other anomalies \u201cthat could be a result of the passage of SARS-CoV-2 or derived from their lifestyle,\u201d which they aim to determine.<\/p>\n

The last positive case<\/a> in Cienfuegos was registered on August 15. This is a male resident in the main municipality, but his source of infection is located abroad. On that date, 217 contacts were kept under surveillance.<\/p>\n

The contacts of a possible positive case are precisely the greatest concern for Lidia, a resident of Palmira, a municipality that to date has not had any case of COVID-19, but which is less than 15 kilometers from the provincial capital. Due to this closeness, Lidia continues in isolation until today, as she tells us, because if the coronavirus enters her house \u201cit leaves her without a family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lidia lives in isolation, as far as possible, with her three-year-old daughter, her 57-year-old mother with rheumatoid arthritis and her 61-year-old father with hypertension. Since the pandemic began, she is in charge of buying all the products in the house, that is, of standing in lines. For her, it was \u201ca blessing\u201d when the province started controlling the sale of products in the marketing network in CUC through the ration book. She says that if it weren\u2019t for that she \u201ccouldn\u2019t buy anything without having to start a fight\u201d because those lines were taken over by \u201cthe same people.\u201d Lists were made since days before, people sneaked in with the firsts in line….<\/p>\n

However, the measure did not fully meet her needs. Lidia explains that, according to her ration book, she has to buy in a certain store and, if the product she needs is in another, she will run out of it until it gets to her store. Luckily, she\u2019s been able to get the chicken for her daughter, because \u201cit comes in every week, although not so many packages.\u201d Oil is something else: \u201cI spent three months without oil, because until all the ration books got it, I couldn\u2019t buy again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Something similar happened to her with the toiletries: \u201cThe 700 ration books that buy in my store have not been able to get shampoo or toothpaste in five months, they brought some only once and very little.\u201d Lidia has been told that in Cienfuegos, the provincial capital, more things are sold.<\/p>\n

However, toothpaste and shampoo are also the most \u201chard-to-get\u201d products, according to Carla, who lives in Cienfuegos. She tells us that there, since the beginning of August, they decided to remove control of the purchase by the ration book. \u201cIt didn\u2019t solve much either, because you had to stand in long lines, and you weren\u2019t sure you would buy because it could run out and you are left for the next round,\u201d she clarifies. She adds that now your ID card is collected at the door of the store and you are put on a list, \u201cso you don\u2019t buy again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carla is not willing to spend dawn on a line, so she buys what she gets \u201cunder the counter,\u201d although her work as a tourist guide was also interrupted and, with it, her income. In sales groups on Facebook, the previous week they promoted the sale of Sedal shampoo and conditioner at 12 CUC, the same day they were sold in the store.<\/p>\n

What she doesn\u2019t get by that means, Carla doesn\u2019t have: \u201cFor example, I imagine I\u2019m a vegetarian and I don\u2019t eat chicken.\u201d When the only alternative is the line, she leaves it to Ana, her mother. One day last week Ana was in a so-called shampoo line from nine in the morning until six in the afternoon. \u201cSupposedly,\u201d she clarifies, \u201cbecause sometimes people stand in line because someone from the store tells them that they are going to sell a product or they imagine that it\u2019s about time, taking account the distribution time of the products in Cienfuegos.\u201d Sometimes they\u2019re right, sometimes they aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Holgu\u00edn: three months without COVID-19<\/strong><\/p>\n

After more than 90 days without autochthonous cases, the perception of risk has been deteriorating among the people of Holgu\u00edn or they\u2019re so tormented in the transition to the \u201cnew normal\u201d that they don\u2019t notice it.<\/p>\n

This is shown by the testimonies collected by the local weekly<\/a>, where this week it mentioned the case of people who, both in one of the many lines to get food and when getting on a local bus, don\u2019t use the mask. Out of compassion, sometimes someone else reaches out to offer them a mask on loan and as safe-conduct.<\/p>\n

This \u201cfraternal\u201d response seems to emerge in the multiple lines because, yes, certain food items \u201cdisappeared\u201d along with the positive autochthonous cases, as Ricardo, a state worker ironically tells us. For him, \u201cthere are no basic products in the stores. They bring out a little of hygiene products, chicken, oil, but on alternate days; there are very few products and to get them you must make huge lines. I have heard of people who have spent two, three days, a week and up to 21 days in line,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Months ago, his grandparents\u2019 neighborhood was quarantined and, since then, the torturous searches for food began by bicycle for this 39-year-old man. \u201cTechnically the government had secured food for the area closed by quarantine. They prepared some modules with products. The prices were really not low, for example, a pancake, toasted cornmeal, a liter of syrup, crackers and Cuban pasta, 46 pesos. A lot of flour for some old people,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Bypassing the provisions for the new coronavirus, and although with the necessary precautions, he has had no choice but to wander without much luck in search of food from one point to another. However, \u201ceven if there is nothing, the lines are endless. For me, this has gotten on people\u2019s nerves,\u201d he warns.<\/p>\n

Others agree with him that finding products such as chicken or toilet paper has become a real problem in the city, and they don\u2019t want to imagine what it\u2019s like in some municipalities.<\/p>\n

But there are two more complications: the lines that continue, although organized by anti-line groups and the police, and the illegal resale that proliferates even in the middle of the street, thanks to the famous carts that enter the neighborhoods loaded with merchandise. The prices of what they offer are multiplied by three.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it showed up again, pork prices soared. The same happened with fruits and plantain. Papaya is six pesos a pound; a plantain five or six pesos,\u201d says Ricardo.<\/p>\n

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Banana cultivation in the province was damaged by Tropical Storm Laura. Photo: Al D\u00eda.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like Cienfuegos, Holgu\u00edn keeps its borders under strict control. The main routes to access the territory have points such as that of Los Jag\u00fceyes, at the entrance to the Calixto Garc\u00eda municipality, where travelers coming from any other central or western territory are screened.<\/p>\n

Until Saturday, the Provincial Health Department had registered in the province about 728 national travelers<\/a>, most of them coming from Havana (547). For that reason, they keep a follow-up from the primary health care system, anticipating the return of contagions, when until August 20 there were only two positive patients hospitalized the territory: a traveler from Costa Rica and one from Moa who arrived from Artemisa.<\/p>\n

By September, the territory should have a Molecular Biology Laboratory, under construction at the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Provincial Hospital. This will allow it to continuously check daily tests.<\/p>\n

Granma: in the gaps of the production chain<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first patients with the new coronavirus were documented in the province of Granma between March 9 and 22, 2020. Patient zero was a French citizen who was staying at the Royalton Hotel, in front of Parque C\u00e9spedes, in Bayamo, but shortly after Cuban citizens from Italy, Spain, Panama, the United States and Canada were added, both residents on the island and visitors.<\/p>\n

At the end of March, 10 cases were reported in the province: five in Bayamo, two in Guisa, one in Jiguan\u00ed, one in Manzanillo and one in R\u00edo Cauto. On April 19, during a meeting of the Provincial Defense Council held in Bayamo, Granma also decided to close the borders with its neighboring provinces<\/a>\u2015Las Tunas, Holgu\u00edn and Santiago de Cuba\u2015due to the increase in cases in those territories. By then, the province accumulated 20 days free of the disease. Bayamo, in a word, was in quarantine.<\/p>\n

Regardless of its possible problems, the truth is that this policy worked. Dr. Kenia Gonz\u00e1lez Medina, head of Medical Care of the Provincial Public Health Department, told the local press<\/a> that the 12 cases registered in the territory had been discharged from the hospital on May 5.<\/p>\n

But that efficiency in the control of the epidemiological situation contrasted with the problems of material life, especially those related to the availability of food and agricultural products, an old matter, magnified by the economic impacts of the pandemic. To cite just three examples, a swift review of official statistics<\/a> shows that from 2013 to 2018, the production of pork, poultry and eggs had been decreasing significantly in the province.<\/p>\n

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Agricultural farm in Granma. Photo: La Demajagua.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Regarding other agricultural products, in mid-2015 the newspaper La Demajagua<\/em> said that \u201cthe failure of state enterprises in production, beyond any explanation or justification,\u201d was \u201cthe cause of the shortage of agricultural products in the markets.\u201d Manuel Sobrino Mart\u00ednez, president of the Provincial Assembly of People\u2019s Power, declared: \u201cOrganizational, supply and discipline conditions must be created that allow us to be more efficient in the production and commercialization of these products.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that time, milk delivery to the population had a deficit of 700,000 liters. As part of the picture there was also a historical fact: the illegal slaughtering of cattle, typical of a locality that during its good times had been one of the main producers of meat and milk in all of Cuba.<\/p>\n

Three years later, in 2018, the situation was not very different. \u201cGranma will be a more prosperous province if it develops agriculture,\u201d said Federico Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, first secretary of the Party in Granma, speaking during the second ordinary session of the Provincial Assembly of People\u2019s Power in Bayamo on May 28 of that year. According to the leader, agriculture was not \u201cjust to eat but to develop the province, improve the lives of those who work in it, stimulate the development of the industry in a sustainable way, with sustainable food, at reasonable prices, and produce to replace imports and to export.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, this whole situation determined that with the pandemic, people went to stores in CUC, both those set up on General Garc\u00eda Boulevard and on the Bayamo-Santiago de Cuba highway, to resolve<\/em> \u201cthe protein,\u201d that is to say, to buy the nylons of chicken pieces, the famous \u201chot dogs\u201d and other deficit items, including soaps, detergents and personal hygiene products.<\/p>\n

As for agricultural markets such as those in Plaza Luis Ram\u00edrez L\u00f3pez or El Chapuz\u00f3n, in a situation of a drop in supply, the usual occurred: sales prices skyrocketed, starting with those for pork. \u201cThe pound of pork sold by the state was 35 pesos per leg and 17 for the rest,\u201d says a teacher from Bayamo. \u201cNow the state doesn\u2019t sell. On the street it was 25, and now 50 and 60, if you can find it.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThe price of the fongo [a type of plantain] has not changed, it\u2019s just on the ration book and very low. The small markets now only have melons and avocados,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The lines to buy food, one of the most worrying problems due to the possibility of contagion due to the disrespect shown by Cubans for the regulations and social isolation, behaved in Bayamo as in the rest of the national territory.<\/p>\n

As in Cienfuegos, in Bayamo the ration book mechanism was used for a time to seek more equitable access to basic need products. A young mother has summed it up as follows: \u201cEverything was put in the ration book. The store manager kept the list of the books and they were marked as they dispatched what was bought. The line was organized by the number on the ration book. And everything was more controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n

But later, she said: \u201cIt\u2019s no longer like that today. People mark on the line from the day before and then in the morning the police control and turns are distributed. And the police organizing and controlling the line so that they don\u2019t mark twice. They sell until the product runs out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus, the \u201cnew normal\u201d includes the old problems as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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