At the close of July 11, Cuba had already administered 7,507,406 doses of the Cuban anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidates, the ministry of public health reported.

In Cuba 38,721 samples were taken for surveillance during the day, 5,613 of which were positive. With PCR test 17,408 samples and with antigen 21,313 people were studied. The country accumulated 5,628,936 samples taken and 250,527 positive.

Marta Ayala Avila, general director of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB by its Spanish acronym), informed today that Cuba is working on vaccine variants in the face of the appearance of new strains of the SARS-CoV-2.

Despite the discrediting campaign generated in recent days to question Cuba's fight against COVID-19 pandemic, the Cuban health system has managed to cure more than 80 % of the people that got the disease and two thirds of the patients seriously ill, said Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel today.

Cuba studied a total of 41,705 samples for monitoring during the day, resulting in 6,423 positive ones. 18,071 samples with PCR tests and 23,634 people with antigen tests. The country accumulated 5,590,215 samples taken and 244,914 positive ones.

More than 1,400 artists from the province of Holguín, including students and amateurs, will join the health intervention with the vaccine Abdala in support of the health programs designed to tackle COVID-19 transmission in the region.

The general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute, Vicente Vérez Bencomo, announced today that Soberana 02 in its three-dose scheme with Soberana Plus booster reached an efficacy of 91.2 percent (%) against the symptomatic disease, a figure higher than the one established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunogens as effective vaccines.

A total of 6,833,720 doses have been administered in Cuba as of July 6, with Cuban anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidates, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported today.

A brigade of 17 health professionals from Santiago de Cuba will be sent to the western province of Matanzas—Cuba’s current COVID-19 epicenter—to help in the fight against the pandemic.

In view of the territorial dispersion of the new coronavirus and the increase in the speed of transmission of the Wuhan, South Africa, United Kingdom and California COVID-19 variants, health authorities in this province are working hard to stop the fourth wave of contagion.

 The new fully Cuban Umelisa SARS-COV-2 diagnostic system will be used in the province of Cienfuegos to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Cuban Health Ministry announced Monday the administration up to July 4th of six million 718 thousand 887 doses of locally developed COVID-19 candidate vaccines.

Cuba studied 35,243 samples, resulting in 3,519 positive ones. The country accumulates 5, 332,005 samples taken and 210,913 positive.

 Cuban authorities decided to interrupt the public health intervention with locally developed COVID-19 candidate vaccines in some territories due to the passage of storm Elsa on the island.