Oscar landed in Cuba early on Monday Finnish time. Shortly after landfall, the hurricane weakened to a tropical storm.
President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel told early Tuesday morning Finnish time that hurricane Oscar had caused the death of at least six people.
In addition, in the eastern province of Guantamo in Cuba, there was serious damage after the storm.
Oscar landed in Cuba early on Monday Finnish time. Shortly after landfall, the hurricane weakened to a tropical storm.
However, the US Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that heavy rains could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
A nationwide blackout began in Cuba on Friday. The outage was caused by a fault at the country’s largest power generation plant.
Electricity has been restored to almost 90 percent of customers in the Cuban capital, Havana, according to the city’s energy company, according to the state news portal Cubadebate. Instead, several areas in the rest of the country are still without electricity.
It is difficult to get fuel for the power plants
Cuba produces only a third of the electricity it needs with its own power plants. In order to strengthen the electricity grid, it has leased seven floating power plants from Turkish companies. In addition, several small diesel-powered generators are also in use.
Cuba has not received enough fuel for its electricity production. Diaz-Canel has blamed the country’s energy problems on the former US president Donald Trump’s economic sanctions tightened during the period. The United States embargoed Cuba more than six decades ago.
The country is suffering from an economic crisis, which according to experts is the worst since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of its support to Cuba. In addition to fuel, there is a lack of food, medicine and water in the country.