Over 1.3 thousand women including 500 pregnant and some 800 breastfeeding mothers have already received a first dose of the Cuban COVID-19 vaccine Abdala in this Cuban city, some 140 kilometers from Havana.

Cuba is advancing clinical trials on Children with locally developed COVID-19 candidate vaccines in a process that includes 350 minors, with 50 on stage one and 300 on stage two.

Cuba studied 39,358 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 7,950 positive ones. The country accumulates 6,899,423 samples taken and 466,169 positive.

With the administration of one dose of the Cuban anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidate Soberana Plus, the first 25 adolescents included in the study concluded today the Soberana-Pediatría clinical trial.

On Sunday, 8,418 patients were discharged from hospital in Cuba, 468 recovered more than the cases reported positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, said Francisco Duran, national director of epidemiology of the ministry of public health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym).

Faced with the sustained increase of COVID-19 positive cases, the ‘Antonio Luaces Iraola’ General Teaching Hospital in this province is reorganizing its services to respond to current needs and maintain its usual emergency services.

Cuban deputy Prime Minister Ines Maria Chapman Waugh visited this weekend health care and service centers in the Cuban eastern city of Holguin, where she checked the situation presented by the territory in the fight against the pandemic.

The total number of COVID-19 pediatric patients in Cuba has reached 69 thousand 539, some 15.8 percent of all cases reported in the country.

The immunization against COVID-19 is well underway in Cuba with the recent administration so far of 10 million 616 thousand 592 doses of locally developed vaccines.

 Cuba reported on Thursday some 407 patients in Intensive Care Units, with 150 of them in critical conditions. It’s the highest count of Cuban in ICUs since the pandemic’s onset on the island.

The Provincial Communist Party leader in Havana Luis Antonio Torres said on Thursday that top Cuban government authorities are insisting in the need to guarantee the protection of health workers against COVID-19.

A contingent of 210 health professionals arrived as reinforcements to face the complex epidemiological situation in the province of Ciego de Avila due to the high transmission of COVID-19.

With the report today of 8,399 new positive cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, Cuba has accumulated 431,013 confirmed cases since March last year, 90.4 percent (%) of them recovered.

Cuba administered 10 million 267 thousand 358 doses of COVID-19 vaccines up to August 2nd, according to the island’s Health Ministry.