Cuban President Fidel Castro is walking, talking and being briefed, according to a statement published on Saturday in the Communist Party daily, Granma, a day before his 80th birthday.
'Someone who visited the comandante a few hours ago to brief him on certain matters ... said he witnessed how the head of the revolution, after receiving a little physical therapy, walked in the room and later, sitting in a chair, engaged in an animated conversation,' Granma said.
Castro has not been seen publicly since he temporarily ceded power to his younger brother on 31 July because of complicated abdominal surgery.
His last public appearance was on 26 July.
His health is being treated as a state secret and there has been no information as to where he is being treated, who is visiting him or what his condition is.
