Havana_ The recovery of the housing fund damaged by the devastating impact of a tornado in several municipalities of this capital shows progress and continues as a priority, according to authorities cited today by the press.

Different media publish a summary of the meeting of the Council of Ministers held the day before to follow up on the response to the meteorological event on January 27, an encounter that led by Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, addressed the issue of housing.

The tornado caused almost eight thousand affectations in the houses, including 752 total collpases after its passage through the municipalities Diez de Octubre, Guanabacoa, Regla, Cerro and Habana del Este, the first three the hardest hit.

According to the head of the National General Staff of Civil Defense, Major General Ramón Pardo, 640 people remain sheltered under the category of assisted by the State, because they lost all their material belongings.

For his part, the Minister of Construction (Micons), René Mesa, said that of the seven thousand 923 affectations in the houses, about two thousand 500 have been totally resolved, while from the total collapses 22 have been solved.

Around four thousand builders of several organisms are working on the recovery of the housing fund, he said.

The official of the Micons Norberto Pérez stressed that a strategy has been drawn up to deal with the construction of the houses by total landslides, which includes the definition of redoing 459 in the same place where they were, placing 72 in new locations and 273 in adapted premises.

804 homes will be enabled, 52 more than the total landslides caused by the tornado, since some families lived in overcrowding, he said.

At yesterday's meeting of the Council of Ministers, the body that began the assessment of damages and the follow-up to recovery just a few hours after the whiplash of the tornado, Díaz-Canel called to maintain the pace of work until all the problems caused by the phenomenon.

He also stressed that the answer is based on the humanist principle of the Cuban Revolution not to leave anyone abandoned.

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