Work to repair the havoc Oscar left behind continues around the clock in the municipalities of Guantánamo (east), where basic services were restored and 1,470 houses recovered.

Díaz Canel instructed to focus work on recovering homes, finishing the repair of bridges and other pending construction works, as well as tending to crops and surveying water drainage in the municipalities affected.

In Granma province, recently hit by two earthquakes, 1,275 people remain in the homes of relatives and other temporary facilities, while materials continue to flow into the territory to repair and reconstruct buildings.

Due attention is also given to seriously damaged state entities, giving priority to related projects and documentation that might help define specialized work brigades.

Santiago de Cuba, meanwhile, is fully immersed in repairing educational and hospital facilities, some of them of high heritage value.

Meanwhile, in Artemisa (west), badly hit by Hurricane Rafael, 87.1 percent of the population already has access to water services, and mobile and fixed telephony have been recovered to a great extent.

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