Havana, April 23 (RHC)-- The Cuban Minister of Communications, Jorge Luis Perdomo, reviewed operations through a video conference, noting actions of the Cuban Postal Service amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Along with Carlos Asencio Valerino, president of the Cuban Postal Service Business Group, Perdomo insisted that the priority for the Postal Service at this stage of the coronavirus is to take care of the health of its workers, and reiterated that its managers must continue to evaluate the situation in the services on a daily basis, as well as the personnel affected by the disease, in order to adopt the appropriate measures in each case.

Asencio Valerino explained that priority is given to home service, in order to limit the influx of the public to post officies, where the working day was readjusted to the morning schedule, from Monday to Friday, and where prevention and control measures have been strengthened.  

Valerino said that under the current conditions, the Cuban Post Office is ensuring the monthly payment of 152 million pesos of Social Security to 486,000 retirees; and 25.4 million pesos of Social Assistance to 102,000 people who receive that help from the State and added that 63 percent of those services are carried out at home by mail carriers and postal agents.

The highest representative of Correos de Cuba also reported that the progress of the e-commerce pilot test is continuing, which began on April 13th in Havana by the Cimex and Caribe store chains; with home delivery of purchases that customers make via the Internet.