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Havana, June 16 (RHC)-- Cuba's Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero, reiterated on Tuesday the call to comply with discipline the protocols established to face the Covid-19 pandemic, given the increase in the number of infections.

While leading, together with President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the meeting of the temporary working group for the control of the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus, the head of government emphasized that this requirement must begin in the municipalities.

Likewise, he instructed the review of the management methods and plans to face each locality's epidemiological situation and reinforce the protection measures for vulnerable people.

In a meeting of the Cuban President with scientists and specialists involved in the control work on Covid-19, also held during the day, it was reported that the island will maintain in the coming weeks a trend of growth of confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

According to the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Havana, Raul Guinovart, this increase will occur in almost all the island territories, including those that seemed to have controlled the situation.

When updating the forecast models, Guinovart pointed out that the scenario looks more favorable in the capital, particularly in the municipalities where the health intervention with Cuban vaccine candidates has advanced the most.

At the meeting, Diaz-Canel stressed the need to raise the demand and individual and collective responsibility because of the difficult epidemiological situation the nation is going through and highlighted the contribution of scientists and experts in the fight against the pandemic.