On the presence of Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, Cuban president, together with Salvador Valdes Mesa, vice president and Esteban Lazo Hernandez, Parliament President, the Cuban parliamentarians learned through a video conference system about the country's epidemiological situation and the actions to confront it, through the words of prime minister Manuel Marrero Cruz.

In his speech, Marrero Cruz went over the background of the confrontation plan and explained the measures adopted to reduce the effects, in addition to reporting on the new plan, whose 189 measures in three stages go for the following goals:

To start the new normality in a gradual and asymmetric way.

Mitigate the economic impact caused by COVID-19 and the hardening of the blockade imposed by the United States.

To develop the capacity to confront the events that occur in the new normality. This plan is structured in three stages:

1- Epidemic stage

Limited native transmission phase / Community transmission phase

2- Recovery stage
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
3- Stage of new normality

Epidemic stage

Limited indigenous transmission phase: cases of Covid-19 are detected and confirmed, establishing epidemiological links. Cases appear in different localities of a territory, in a limited way.

Community transmission phase: cases of COVID-19 are detected and confirmed in which no epidemiological links are established. Cases are diagnosed in different localities of a territory, in a dispersed and sustained manner.

*In both phases, activities and services are closed and limited.

Recovery stage

1- First phase: a group of activities is opened or partially reinstated in such a way that its behavior can be evaluated, maintaining regulations and restrictions.
2- Second phase: actions to reopen services and activities are continued, guaranteeing compliance with the hygienic-sanitary measures approved for the phase.
3- Third phase: a greater standardization of services and productive activities is conceived, bringing to normality those that are considered of lesser risk and keeping implemented the measures to reduce the disease.

Stage of new normality

Production and services are re-established, strengthening the epidemiological watch, the compliance and control of the hygienic-sanitary measures, as well as other dispositions that assure the protection of health, with the responsible participation of the people, from the adoption of a new code and life styles.

Then, Jose Angel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health, presented the Plan, where he showed the epidemiological situation in the world and in our country, as well as the work developed by the different groups created for that purpose.

In conclusion, Esteban Lazo Hernandez, Parliament President, gave the floor to the deputies, among them Orlando Gutierrez Boza, from Havana’s municipality of Plaza de la Revolucion, who spoke about his experiences as a district delegate in the confrontation of the pandemic.

"We have the truth in our hand, which is stronger than any cataclysm. We have a people in revolution," he said before those present at the Convention Palace who applauded energetically. The Holguin deputies, and probably those from all over Cuba, also honored his words with applause.

"We will live and win, we will live and win, we will live and win," he concluded.

Already in the second part of the day, at noon, Marino Murillo, head of the Commission of Implementation of the Guidelines presented the Task of Ordering.
"The business system will have benefits, but it must increase its efficiency. It will not be the same to work in a company with profits, than in others that do not. Therefore, the first thing will be working efficiency", he argued.

Regarding exporting companies, he said that "they will have more income. If an exporter exports a lot, we will have more foreign currency and somehow the non-exporter will also benefit. The country benefits", highlighted Murillo Jorge, besides stimulating exports, contrary to what happens today.

With these presentations, the Cuban legislators have more information about the current situation of the country, as well as the process of regulation, together with the risks involved.

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