The waiver will be in place till the next Monday and travellers to the country can bring any amount of such goods during this time, said a BBC report.

Thousands took to streets on Sunday in a rare anti-government protest dwindling food and medicine stocks and the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

More than hundred people are believed to have been arrested during the protest and one man was killed.

He was killed during clashes with police on Monday on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba's Ministry of Interior said Tuesday, according to state-run Radio Rebelde, reported the media.

The rare anti-government protests in the island nation started on Sunday with a demonstration in the city of San Antonio de los Baños, south-west of Havana, but soon spread throughout the country, according to BBC.

Such unauthorised public gatherings are illegal in Cuba, it added.

One of the demands raised by the protesters was of tax free import of food and medicine supplies by travellers.

Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz announced the change on Wednesday at a meeting broadcast on state television, BBC reported.

"It was a demand made by many travellers and it was necessary to take this decision," the prime minister said. The government "will assess things" after 31 December, he added.

Travellers to Cuba can currently bring up to 10kg of medicine into the country tax-free.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday global internet monitoring firm NetBlocks said the Cuban government has blocked access to social media and messaging platforms including Facebook and WhatsApp.

AFP news agency journalists reported that Cuban authorities had restored access to the internet on Wednesday. However, some messaging and social media platforms reportedly remained blocked on 3G and 4G, including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter.