Students walk in a line to pay their last respects to Havana's Historian Eusebio Leal during his funeral ceremony inside the “Salon de Los Pasos Perdidos” where his ashes are on display at the Capitol in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, December 17, 2020. Leal died on July 31 of this year but funeral services were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, a vendor gives a complimentary, homemade guava pastry to an elderly woman in Havana, Cuba, Friday, March 19, 2021. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A man does pull ups amid the new coronavirus pandemic at a street gym in Havana, Cuba, Monday, December 21, 2020. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A farmer takes tobacco leaves to a drying barn at a tobacco plantation in Vinales, Cuba, on January 29, 2021. Cuban farmers cultivate with special care the leaves of the world-famous Havana cigars, one of whose leading brands, Cohiba, celebrates its 55th anniversary this year. Cuban tobacco authorities reported the cancellation of the select XXIII Habano Festival, scheduled for February 2021, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)





A Soviet-era Lada car with a hammer and sickle sticker is driven to the Lada Cuba Club meeting in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, March 21, 2021. Russians stopped making this model in September 2012, however, a line remained in production in Egypt until 2015. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A Soviet-era Lada car is sprinkled in flowers after it parked under a tree on a street in Havana, Cuba, Friday, March 19, 2021. Maintenance of Lada cars is a trial. Owners manage to get some spare parts through “mules,” people who hand-carry goods into the island, but sometimes they must have parts made by hand. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A Soviet-era Lada car with a “Club Lada” sticker is parked during a meeting of the Lada Cuba Club in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, March 21, 2021. The club has about 140 members who meet for social activities like donating blood, assisting each other when breakdowns happen or just trading quick-fix tricks and parts. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, boys spend the afternoon on top of a tree, taking care of their grazing horses at sunset in Wajay, Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, October 13, 2020. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Wearing protective face masks amid the new coronavirus pandemic, a woman pushes a cart with a child wearing a raincoat during a light rain in Havana, Cuba, Friday, October 16, 2020. Cuba relaxed COVID-19 restrictions Monday in hopes of boosting its economy, allowing shops and government offices to reopen and welcoming locals and tourists at airports across the island. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Wearing masks against the spread of the new coronavirus, a newly married couple takes a ride on a classic American car along the Malecon in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, February 11, 2021. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Men play basketball at a court in Havana, Cuba, Monday, December 21, 2020. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Priests wearing face masks, shields and gloves receive a pilgrim during the Saint Lazarus procession in El Rincon, Havana province, Cuba, on December 17, 2020. (Photo by Adalberto Roque/AFP Photo)





In this October 22, 2020 file photo wearing a face mask amid the new coronavirus pandemic, Cristobal Marquez, owner of “Cristobal's”, the restaurant where Michelle and Barak Obama had lunch during their visit to Cuba in 2016, shows the book made by White House photographer Pete Souza, in Havana, Cuba. While Joe Biden was part of an administration that reestablished diplomatic ties with Cuba, loosened travel restrictions and made it easier for Cubans in the United States to send money home, President Donald Trump has increased sanctions on companies that do business with the island's government and even banned Americans from staying in Cuban state-owned hotels. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo/File)





Wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, diver Yuniel Gonzalez walks home with his catch of the day, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, October 27, 2020. Cuba relaxed COVID-19 restrictions earlier this month in hopes of boosting its economy, allowing shops and government offices to reopen and welcoming locals and tourists at airports across the island. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, children play baseball in Old Havana, Cuba, Monday, October 12, 2020. Cuba relaxed coronavirus restrictions Monday in hopes of boosting its economy, allowing shops and government offices to reopen and welcoming locals and tourists at airports across the island except in Havana. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A health worker takes a swab sample from a tourist coming from Mexico upon his arrival at the Jose Marti International Airport amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Havana, Cuba, November 15, 2020. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus children play baseball in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, October 14, 2020. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A woman waits to be attended at a Western Union office on its last day of business in Havana, Cuba, Monday, November 23, 2020. Restrictions from the Trump administration on the military-controlled operator that handles cash deposits will go into effect Monday at 6 p.m. local, keeping Cubans from being able to retrieve money sent from abroad through Western Union – the main source of cash remittances for many families. (Photo by Ismael Francisco/AP Photo)





Young artists protest in front of the doors of the Ministry of Culture, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, November 27, 2020. Dozens of Cuban artists demonstrated against the police evicting a group who participated in a hunger strike. (Photo by Ismael Francisco/AP Photo)





A pickup truck, hauling a poster of Fidel Castro, drives past Revolution Square completely empty of tourists, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. The Caribbean is hunting for visitors and vaccines to jump-start the stalled economy in one of the world’s most tourism-dependent regions. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A mask-wearing student puts on plastic gloves as a precaution amid the spread of the new coronavirus during class in Havana, Cuba, Monday, November 2, 2020. Tens of thousands of school children returned to class Monday in Havana for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic prompted authorities to shut the island down in April. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A classic American car is wrapped in plastic to prevent sea salt from corroding it in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Vintage cars in Cuba are part of daily life with most classic cars being used as taxis and to transport tourists. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)