Cuba is analyzing the transfer of technology to Vietnam for the manufacture of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine Abdala in that nation, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.

Since March 2020, future health professionals have been engaged in the fight against COVID-19 in the province of Cienfuegos, taking part in community screenings, working in isolation centers and helping with the vaccination process with Abdala, among other tasks.

Havana’s government and Communist Party authorities addressed the increasing number of children infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus over the past few days.

Since August 14, the operators of the Eagle Rey International Diving Center, located in the Guardalavaca beach resort, guarantee more than 80 breathing air cylinders a day for medical use in hospital facilities in the province of Holguin.

Some 5. 1 million people have received at least one dose of the Cuban vaccines Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala.

Dr. C. Vicente Verez Bencomo, general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV), highlighted in this city(central region ) advances of the Soberana 01 vaccine candidate included in the Soberana Centro clinical trial, which is taking place in the Cruces and Palmira municipalities of the province of Cienfuegos.

Cuban women in the health sector ratified their commitment to fight COVID-19 as far as there is a single patient positive to SARS-CoV-2, which causes the highly contagious disease.

A brigade from the Henry Reeve Cuban medical contingent, specialized in big epidemics and disasters arrived in the south-central province of Cienfuegos to help fight a strong spread of coronavirus, which has triggered the prevalence rate and number of cases of COVID-19 in that territory.

Cuba will receive a donation of medicines and medical items this week thanks to an initiative by friends of the island who wanted to reciprocate the recent Cuban medical assistance against COVID-19 in that European nation, particularly in the regions of Lombardy and Piedmont.

The Soberana Centro clinical trial continues as of today in some municipalities of the province of Cienfuegos with the administration of the second dose to the subjects involved.

An article published today in the Infomed website explains the symptoms and treatment options for postcovid disorder or "persistent COVID", which some people who have recovered from the disease suffer from.

At the end of August 21, 12, 506,728 doses of Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala have been administered in the country.

Francisco Duran Garcia, national director of epidemiology of the ministry of public health(MINSAP by its Spanish acronym), insisted today on the need for self-protection in view of the increase in the number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in the country. He explained that during the first 22 days of this month, 198,276 people were diagnosed with the disease and 1,773 died.

Very early in the morning, workers of the 8 de Marzo Pharmaceutical Laboratory Company begin one of the most important tasks at this time for the country: the production of antibiotics destined for each of the pharmacies in the national territory.