The Municipal Defense Council (CDM) of Isla de la Juventud today emphasized the need to preserve economic and human resources in the face of the imminence of the tropical depression Eta and its area of influence over western and central Cuba. Luis Sánchez, head of the forecasting center of the delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, drew attention to the risk of flooding in low-lying areas of the territory due to the occurrence of heavy and intense rains and wave trains of up to four meters high on the south coast of the special municipality. The tropical organism is expected to impact Cayo Largo del Sur, through whose flat relief it can suffer penetrations from the sea, said the specialist. In this sense, Adiel Morera -intendent of the Council of the Administration- directed to put to good safeguard the resources of the economy of that tourist pole and to protect the lives of the 321 workers who stay there. It was known that when the information phase was decreed, farmers harvest the food suitable for consumption, lead the herds to high places, the dockers deconcentrated the merchandise in the roads of Batabanó and Nueva Gerona and the small boats are protected in their usual shelters. For his part, Yaisel Cobarrubias, delegate of the Institute of Hydraulic Resources, said that so far 10 of the 14 dams discharge their waters and two of them are kept under strict surveillance because they are upstream of settlements and neighboring economic objectives in case of rains intense. In view of the hydrometeorological situation, the community services company continues to collect solid waste to avoid its dragging and will clean the sewer system especially in the lower areas of the city to avoid flooding. Conditions are also created to protect people living in vulnerable conditions in the evacuation center and are identified by the Defense Zones. Zunilda García, president of the CDM and first secretary of the Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, guided to pay attention to families living in temporary facilities to evacuate them if necessary, while reiterating as a priority preserving human lives and the resources of the economy. Social institutions and economic entities must rationally comply with the measures conceived in their respective disaster risk reduction plans, as well as the actions planned for the prevention and control of arboviruses and the new Coronavirus, she said.
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