Cuba made fast progress restoring power to swaths of the Caribbean island nation on Tuesday, both in Havana and outlying provinces, even as emergency and grid workers struggled to reach areas ravaged by Tropical Storm Oscar.

Cuba's power-grid operator said it had restored electricity to most of the capital Havana on Monday even as Tropical Storm Oscar lashed the island's eastern end, downing trees and power lines.

The island nation of Cuba is facing a double whammy of crisis, with a widespread power outage hitting the country just days before Hurricane Idalia made landfall. The blackout, the latest in a series of crippling disruptions,