The Abdala vaccine, 100 % Cuban against COVID-19, is available today in Cienfuegos province for immunization as of July 29 for people over 19 years of age living in the provincial capital, which has been most affected by the incidence of the pandemic.

Cuba studied 51,209 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 9,323 positive ones. The country accumulates 6, 360,992 samples taken and 358,378 positive.

With the report of 9,323 positives for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, Cuba registered today the highest number of infected people since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country, in March last year, said the national director of epidemiology, Francisco Duran, who warned about the resurgence registered during the last three months, with the consequent increase in cases and deaths.

Millions of doses of a vaccine against Covid-19 will be produced by Iran and Cuba starting next week, according to Dr. Vicente Vérez Bencomo, general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute, in an interview given to a Persian media outlet.

On World Hepatitis Day, Cuba is working to eliminate those caused by B and C viruses in line with the initiative launched by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to put an end to more than 30 infectious diseases in the region by 2030, including viral hepatitis.

The Cuban Health Ministry said that a total of eight million 913 thousand 141 doses of locally developed COVID-19 candidate vaccines were administered up to July 25 on the island.

More than 1,160 inhabitants of the municipalities of Palmira and Cruces, in the province of Cienfuegos, are participating from this Monday in the Soberana Centro clinical trial with vaccine candidates produced by the Finlay Vaccine Institute.

On Friday July 23rd, Cuba reported 7 thousand 784 new COVID-19 cases confirmed Thursday through the study of 51 thousand 425 samples. The country now accumulates a total of 6 million 099 thousand 427 samples out of which 316 thousand 383 have proved positive to COVID-19.

A donation of 1.7 million syringes to back the Cuban COVID-19 vaccination efforts was sent to Cuba by the US Solidarity-with-Cuba movement.

Cuba studied 51,425 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 7,784 positive ones. The country accumulates 6, 099,427 samples taken and 316,383 positive.

Cuba is currently registering the highest number of positive cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic. The Temporary Working Group for the control and prevention of the disease updated the medical protocol to be implemented in positives, suspects and contacts.

The Cuba Solidarity Movement in the United States reaffirmed its commitment to the Caribbean nation and announced the success of the campaign to send six million vaccination syringes.

Experts with the Pan-Am Health Organization—PAHO, and the World Health Organization –WHO, along with Cuban scientists considered the efficacy results of the Cuban COVID-19 vaccine Abdala and candidate vaccines Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus.

Cuba has reported the largest numbers of children infected with SARS-Cov-2 over the past few days and even when most of them are progressing favorably, there is the risk to develop long-time aftereffects.