At least six people have died after Hurricane Oscar swept across parts of Cuba, according to the country's president Miguel Díaz-Canel. The storm brought in a country more or less paralyzed by a several-day-long, massive power outage.
On Monday evening, local time, Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy reported that most of the capital Havana's approximately two million inhabitants had regained power.
Cubans are not unfamiliar with long power outages, but the current outage is the worst in a long time. It started on Thursday and grew into a total blackout of the power grid for the country's approximately eleven million inhabitants on Friday. The reason was a chain reaction after the largest power plant failed in an already strained situation.
On Sunday, Hurricane Oscar swept across the eastern, lower part of the island and complicated the work of restoring the power grid.
Schools and business activities are planned to remain closed on Cuba until at least Wednesday due to the power problems.
