Cuba is taking measures to minimize possible damages that could be caused by tropical storm Elsa amid a complex situation due to Covid-19.

More than 500 aftershocks were registered in western Cuba on Wednesday, after the 5.1-magnitude earthquake that shook a significant part of that territory on Tuesday, the National Seismological Service (SSN) reported.

Last June 24, 89 Cuban emigrants were returned from Mexico, which rises the number of them to more than 500 so far in 2021, said Colonel Roberto Aguilera Puig, head of the Border Unit of the Ministry of the Interior’s Division of Identification and Aliens.

Although the current U.S. government has not yet defined its policy toward Cuba, the Caribbean nation hopes that as part of this, migration talks will be resumed, the Foreign Ministry said.