The Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (Cecmed) approved on Thursday the Ismaelillo-Pediatrics clinical trial with the anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidate Abdala, scheduled to be carried out in the province of Camagüey.

The Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (CECMED) has inspected compliance with Good Clinical Practices throughout the development of Cuban vaccine candidates to ensure their scientific and ethical rigor.

Kamaladdin Heydarov, Minister of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, described as efficient the work of Cuban health specialists in the battle against COVID-19 in his nation.

The Board of Directors of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino) announced today its support to the nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize to the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Situations of Disasters and Serious Epidemics, from Cuba.

The Finlay Vaccine Institute reported today on Twitter that Cuba continues the anti-COVID-19 Soberana-Pediatrics clinical trial.

The larg-scale health intervention with the Cuban anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidate Abdala concluded today in the Isle of Youth, where 52,866 people received 95.6% of the three-dose inoculation process.

“We hit and exceeded the mark of one million Cubans vaccinated with the three doses of Abdala or Soberana,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez announced today on Twitter, and warned that the good news comes in the context of the worst COVID-19 situation since the onset of the virus in the country.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced today on Twitter that the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island prevents its access to equipment, technologies, devices, treatments and drugs made by U.S. companies.

Cuban Public Health Minister Jose Angel Portal Miranda informed that the country is now under the community transmission phase for COVID-19 given the high contagious impact by the virus and the increase of its incidence levels over the past 15 days, add to this the circulation of highly contagious variants of the SARS-CoV-2.

A dynamic exercise is being carried out today in the municipality of Moron, in Ciego de Avila, to check the organization and functioning of the Public Health System to start this Wednesday the health intervention with the Cuban anti-COVID-19 Abdala vaccine candidate.

Some 1,006,300 Cubans have completed the vaccination schedule with the three doses of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidates Soberana 02 and Abdala, and 6,431 convalescents received Soberana Plus, after a total of 5,676,321 doses were applied in the country as of June 27.

Cuba studied 30,945 samples of COVID 19, resulting in 3,080 positive ones. The country accumulates 5, 078,499 samples taken and 188,023 positive.

After gathering data on the health, parental help and home schooling of Cuban children and adolescents through the CNEURO Survey, specialists from various Cuban institutions are looking at the impact of home confinement during the pandemic on this age group.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Cuba, in March last year, 5,047,554 samples have been processed for the detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the disease, the Ministry of Public Health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported today in Havana.