Havana, April 25 (RHC)-- In the meeting to review the battle against COVID-19, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz agreed in emphasizing that organization, in the most diverse aspects, is a vital principle in the current scenario that the country is living, confronting the COVID-19 virus.

Following this line of action, Diaz-Canel called to continue working and attending, with demand and much detail, the organization of the different institutions where people are being treated, whether they are patients confirmed to have COVID-19, contacts or suspects.

The Cuban president insisted on the priority that should be given to the work of epidemiology specialists in all places, "so that they can guide the ways in which both health personnel and patients behave."  The use of nasobucos (face masks) in hospitals is obligatory, he said, as is the adequate protection of the health personnel who work there.

This is the time to work on even the smallest organizational aspect," he said, "which will allow us to adequately deal with the most complex days of the pandemic."

When talking about organization, President Díaz-Canel's words also made it unavoidable to take up the issue of queues, resellers and hoarders.

It is very difficult -- he pointed out -- to say that we are not going to sell anything, just as we cannot take all the products to the bodegas, as many people have been requesting.  That is why the issue is to finish organizing the queues; and it is an aspect that has much to do with the organization in the establishments themselves, but fundamentally with the people who come to them and the way they behave. "We have to overcome that with discipline," said the Cuban president.