HealthCaribbean Weekday
Edition 2021-03-15
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Cuba Announces Fifth COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate
"Another hit for our Science: Soberana01A, new vaccine candidate (the 5th from Cuba) for convalescents of COVID-19. Its creators reported it in a weekly meeting of experts. Cuban Science continues to provide good news," the Cuban president said via Twitter.
Cuba Reports 777 New Cases of COVID-19 and 5 Deaths
The national director of Epidemiology, Dr. Francisco Durán, reported on Friday five deaths and 777 new cases of Covid-19 during the last 24 hours, for an accumulated 54,085 infections and 341 deaths in the nation since March 2020.
Cuban province maintains kidney transplant program despite COVID-19
CAMAGUEY,Cuba, Mar 2 (ACN) Despite the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19, the kidney transplant program continues in the province of Camaguey (east of the country), where since 1978 580 surgeries of this type have been performed on patients from different Cuban territories.
Phase III Clinical Trials of Cuba's Soberana 02 Vaccine Begin
Phase III clinical trials of Cuba’s Soberana 02 vaccine for COVID-19 from the Finlay Vaccine Institute will begin after receiving approval from Cuba’s regulatory authority, the Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (CECMED). Soberana 02 is the first vaccine developed in Latin America to reach the Phase III stage of clinical trials. It is one of the five vaccine candidates that Cuba has produced from its research and development of Covid vaccines. The Island’s other four […]
Cuba to Deliver 1 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses by April
Besides being the only Latin American country developing vaccines, Cuba expects to produce 100 million doses of its Soberana 02 this year.
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