Cuba accumulated, at the end of August 15, 12, 070,621 doses of the vaccine candidates Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus, and with the national vaccine Abdala.

Cuba reported today 1,912 positive cases of COVID-19 in pediatric ages, 19.6 % of those diagnosed during the day, said Francisco Duran Garcia, national director of epidemiology of the ministry of public health(MINSAP by its Spanish acronym).

Cuba studied 41,023 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 9,772 positive ones. The country accumulates 7, 244,102 samples taken and 536,609 positive.

Cubans working and living in Angola sent a nearly 600- kilo shipment of aid to help fight COVID-19 on the island.

The International Course on Dengue and other arboviruses will be held from September 27 to October 1, 2021, and on this occasion, due to the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be conducted, for the first time, in the virtual modality.

Cuba studied a total of 44,360 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 9,169 positive ones. The country accumulates 7, 203,079 samples taken and 526,837 positive.

Cuban medical personnel who since Saturday have been working in the areas most affected by the earthquake in Haiti have assisted more than 600 patients, Prensa Latina reported today.

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.