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According to the Minister of Public Health, José Angel Portal Miranda, "two people unfortunately died of the 13 who were in serious condition because of the injuries sustained during the meteorological phenomenon". The last official report indicated four deaths.
A week after the emergency, government brigades and volunteer citizens were able to remove most debris and electricity was almost completely restored. Telephone services in affected neighborhoods were reinstated in 65% of cases.
The tornado, with a speed of 322 km / h, was punished in the night of January 27 in a part of Havana, affecting the municipalities of Regla, Guanabacoa, San Miguel del Padrón and October 10 . Of category EF 4 (the maximum is EF 5), it traveled a distance of 11,5 km.
In his pbadage, he swept homes, spun cars, and ripped poles and trees.
House destroyed in Havana after the pbadage of the Tornado – Photo: AP Photo / Ramon Espinosa
The Minister of Construction, René Mesa Villafaña, reported that 3,513 houses had been damaged. The tourist areas of the city have also been damaged.
On Sunday (3), workers from the electricity and telephone company rebuilt poles and cables, in the middle of dozens of homes still heavily damaged, most of them being homeless. . The affected people received at home the humanitarian aid of citizens who organized themselves into caravans. The affected areas are protected by the police.
Hundreds of people mobilized via social networks to donate food, clothing, medicine and cleaning products to those affected.
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