The first days of the mass vaccination campaign in Havana with the local COVID-19 candidate vaccine named Abdala, have showed no adverse effects in the involved citizens.

Some 70 thousand Cubans have been immunized with a local COVID-19 candidate vaccine named ABDALA as part of an ongoing health intervention which kicked off on Monday involving health workers, medical students and employees with BioCubaFarma Biotech conglomerate.

Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization and Cadre Policy of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, stated his recognition of all nurses on their Day.

Come May 14, the Cuban vaccine candidate Abdala will be administered in tourism centers across this province as a sanitary intervention, Dr. Aristides Garcia Herrera, supervisor of the process started today in local hospitals and polyclinics, told to media.

Professionals of this province of Matanzas will represent Cuba in the III International Congress of Forensic Odontology and Criminal Investigation, held online from Peru to promote exchange among lecturers from more than a dozen nations.

A Cuban scientific delegate, Dr. Ricardo Casate Fernandez, director of Science and Innovation of the Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (IDICT), is participating in an online meeting on Open Science—a project of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The five-star Gran Muthu Almirante Beach Hotel, located in the Guardalavaca beach resort, is the first tourist center in Cuba to use ultraviolet ray technology (UV-C+OZONE) for the disinfection of surfaces exposed to COVID-19.

Health intervention in at-risk groups and territories begins this Wednesday in the capital's municipalities of Regla, Guanabacoa, Habana del Este and San Miguel del Padrón with the anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidate Abdala, developed by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB).

 The certainty that the Abdala vaccine candidate is very safe was ratified on Tuesday afternoon by Dr. Marta Ayala Avila, general director of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), in a new working meeting convened by the country's top leadership with experts and scientists who in the course of all these months have contributed directly to the confrontation with the COVID-19.

It is normal for viruses to mutate, as it is a phenomenon related to the transmission itself, because as they reproduce there are errors that cause changes in the genetic sequence and give rise to mutations.

The Center for Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias (CIRAH by its Spanish acronym), is one of the health institutions in the province of Holguin(eastern Cuba), affected by the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba.

Cuba studied 18,417 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 1,071 positive ones. The country accumulates 3, 879,873 samples taken and 118,168 positive.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Cuban communist party and president of the Republic, underlined today the importance of achieving well-planned and assured vaccination strategies in each territory.

Specialized care for patients with lupus is one of the priorities of the Cuban health system in the fight against this harmful disease, Doctor of Science Gil Alberto Reyes Llerena, president of the Cuban Society of Rheumatology, told the Cuban News Agency.