Because of the contagion with the new coronavirus of several people in Camilo Cienfuegos community, at Consolacion del Sur municipality, the Defense Council and the Ministry of Public Health decreed the quarantine for the area.

The First Vice-President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Salvador Valdes Mesa, and the First Secretary of the Party in this province, Julio Cesar Rodriguez Pimentel, examined investments linked to the agriculture system.

Army Corps General Leopoldo Cintra Frias, Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), presided in Pinar del Rio the meeting of the Defense Council next to Major General Ramon Pardo Guerra, Chief of the Civil Defense National General Staff.

Due to the proximity and influence of the cloud and rain bands associated with Hurricane Michael, once declared the informative phase, measures are taken in Pinar del Rio province according to this stage.

With the presence of the Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, thousands of people marched in Pinar del Rio along the main street of the provincial capital.