Havana, June 15 (RHC)-- The Minister of Public Health and the heads of Labor and Social Security and of Finance and Prices will appear on the Mesa Redonda radio and TV program this evening to report on the actions of their agencies over the three phases of the COVID-19 recovery phase.

The special program will be aired from 6 to 8 p.m. local time.  Cubavisión Internacional and the international shortwave frequencies of Radio Havana Cuba will broadcast the program live (in Spanish).  The Mesa Redonda (The Round Table) program is also available on Facebook and YouTube.

Cuba begins a crucial week for the post-COVID-19 stage, although prevention and control measures are being maintained, and every day more than two thousand tests are being carried out in search of contagion.

Last Thursday, Cubans learned of the upcoming implementation of a recovery plan, gradual, by phases and asymmetric, for which they began to make plans for the de-escalation of the confinement measures.

It was President Miguel Díaz-Canel, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Planning Alejandro Gil who informed the population, on the radio and television program, about how the Cuban recovery will begin.

The actions are part of a plan conceived in three phases of a first stage, which covers the areas of health, tourism, labor and tax issues, foreign and domestic trade, transportation, education, sports and culture, as well as issues related to the activities during the summer in the country.  Cuba can afford this luxury, since it has always had a low number of serious and critical cases and therefore its intensive care and other hospital capacities have not endangered the stability of the health system.

It was also influenced by the creation of internment centers for suspected cases or contacts of positives, an experience different from that of other nations, where they were sent home and were unable to undergo the tests established to confirm the disease.

In addition, active research was carried out by thousands of medical students who went from house-to-house to identify those with respiratory symptoms.

Under these conditions, Cuba is preparing to begin a new normalcy, since it will never be like before, at least until the vaccine is found.