Cuba to reopen tourism from next week, claims to control COVID-19
Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero announced that Cuba is all prepared to open itself for international tourism.
Sunday, 11th October 2020
Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero announced that Cuba is all prepared to open itself for international tourism from coming week as the country is moving forward new normality after containing the coronavirus outbreak.
Cuba closed its borders six months ago in an effort to control the virus from spreading. Now, the country is initiating to open up to tourism ahead of the November-March high period, first in the north keys and then its Varadero beach hotel.
Thirteen of Cuba’s sixteen regions will soon be exposed to tourism, Marrero announced a roundtable discussion broadcast to the public. However, the capital, Havana which only just resembles to have controlled the second wave of contaminations with severe measures, including a curfew.
International tourism is one of Cuba’s top firm money earners, discontinuing the sector this year has bought a blow to the cash-strapped economy, even as the United States has maintained to strengthen its decades-old trade restriction.
“We will open the probability of international flights for all the regions that are in this third phase,” Marrero stated.
Cuba’s comprehensive, community-based healthcare system has controlled the outbreak and decreased death rate by hospitalizing all confirmed cases, tracking and isolating their connections and implementing a raft of remedial approaches.
Cuba has recorded merely 11 deaths from Covid-19 per million inhabitants, corresponded with 203 for the Dominican Republic and 647 for the United States as per the statistics from Johns Hopkins University show.
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