Cuba’s Health Ministry announced that the first stage of the massive vaccination against COVID 19 will kick off in Havana next month with the home ground vaccines Soberana 02 and Abdala.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote today on Twitter that the health workers and diplomats from the Island currently based in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are proving their altruism, dedication and boundless commitment.

The worsening COVID-19 scenario in the capital Havana due to several SARS-Cov-2 variants, particularly the South African one, has led to deeper analysis of the current situation to adjust decisions aimed at fighting the spread.

“Many people don’t take the pandemic serious till they get infected or when their relatives get sick,” said young mother Thalya Perdomo whose one-year daughter got the SARS-CoV-2 virus last December.

Nearly a few days short of the completion of the third and final phase of the Abdala vaccine candidate trials in the city of Guantánamo, the clinical exercise continues without a hitch. Its success will lay the foundation of the large-scale administration of a vaccine to the Cuban population.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez warned today on Twitter that Cuban scientists have established a growing presence in the country of the COVID-19 variant discovered in South Africa.

More clinical-epidemiological measures to contain COVID-19 mortality in Cuba were presented during the weekly meeting of the country's leadership with experts and scientists involved in scientific and technological innovation activities to fight the pandemic.

Cuban Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) Elba Rosa Pérez congratulated CITMA workers, founders, scientists and directors on the 27th anniversary of its creation.

The Animal Welfare Decree-Law approved in Cuba seeks to guarantee favorable living conditions for these species, which is why the Labiofam Business Group is working to ensure resources for the production of medicines for veterinary use.

Cuba studied 22,239 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 1,183 positive ones. The country accumulates 3, 407,708 samples taken and 95,754 positive (2.8%).

Despite the favorable results in the management and control of imported cases with COVID-19, Cuban travelers constitute the majority of patients infected from abroad with the infectious disease, said an expert of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym).

Doctor of Science Dagmar Garcia Rivera, director of research at the Finlay Institute of Vaccines (IFV), announced the beginning Monday of the second stage of the intervention study of Soberana 02, an anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by that institution of the BioCubaFarma business group.

Renewable Energy Sources (RES) for local development in Cuba is the core topic of an international workshop that begins online tomorrow, organized by the Cuban Society for the Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Respect (CUBASOLAR).

Cuba studied 21,568 samples, resulting in 1,060 positive ones. The country accumulates 3, 385,469 samples taken and 94,571 positive.