Maria Guadalupe Guzman, director of research, diagnosis and reference of the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine, said today that the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is the one that currently predominates in Cuba.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked on Twitter all those involved in the highly-demanding task of making oxygen and praised people’s feelings of patriotism, especially the health staff and scientists who are working full time in very complex circumstances.

Havana, Aug 12 (ACN) Up to August 10th, Cuba administered 11 million 1 thousand 829 doses of its locally developed Soberana 02, Soberana Plus COVID-19 candidate vaccines and also of its vaccine Abdala.

The second dose of the vaccine Abdala will be administered as of today in the city of Cienfuegos, the one with the highest number of COVID-19 cases.

Since ancient times, when medicine was still taking its first steps, our ancestors turned to nature to counter many ailments of the body and also of the spirit.

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.