According to the Presidency of the island, the greatest damage is in Guantánamo, especially in the municipalities of Baracoa, Imías and Maisí, where major flooding is recorded, and damage of varying magnitude is reported in more than a thousand homes.

There are people in flooded areas who are being evacuated with the help of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior, added a note published on the profile of the Presidency on Facebook.

According to this information, Díaz-Canel, as president of the National Defense Council, indicated to prioritize the urgent evacuation of the people who were trapped by the waters, and to make an immediate survey of the damages to arrange for recovery.

“All support is given to the province of Guantanamo,” he said.

In addition, there was contact via video conference with the other eastern provinces, in which there has been no damage so far, and the effect that the runoff of the waters could have in the next few hours is being monitored.

The most recent warning from the Cuban Institute of Meteorology indicated that Oscar continues to weaken, after making landfall yesterday in Guantanamo as a category one hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, of a maximum of five, then degrading to tropical storm.

However, due to its slow movement through eastern Cuba, heavy rains continue in that area, with the heaviest nuclei of precipitation over the province of Guantanamo, the easternmost in the country, and also in Holguin.

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