Vacuna
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Cuba and China present the first patent for a joint vaccine against coronavirus strains
Havana (Agencies) Cuba and China presented to the National Intellectual Property Office of the Asian country the first patent for the Pan-Corona vaccine that is expected to be effective against different strains of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. According to information from the president of the BioCubaFarma group, Eduardo Martínez, said step is the result of bilateral Continue reading
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Cuba confirms 92.28% efficacy of Abdala vaccine
Havana, Jun 22 (Prensa Latina) With three doses Cuba’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Abdala, showed 92,28 percent efficacy in Phase III trial, its developers reported on Monday. Abdala, a vaccine candidate from the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB, in Spanish), shows 92.28 percent efficacy after three jabs, the island’s Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries Business Continue reading
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Cuba will virtually celebrate International Workers’ Day
Havana, Apr 13 (Prensa Latina)- The Cuban Workers’ Central (CTC) and its national unions convened this Monday the virtual celebration of the upcoming May 1 with the slogan United: We do Cuba. The International Workers’ Day, preceded by the days of the VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, will focus its activities on Continue reading
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The Washington Post highlights the potential of Cuban vaccines against Covid19
Washington, Mar 31 (Prensa Latina) The influential American newspaper The Washington Post highlights the potential that Cuba has today to produce its own vaccines against Covid-19, immunize the island’s population with them and distribute doses to other nations. According to the report from that media, Cuba could become the smallest country in the world to Continue reading
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70 percent of Cubans will be vaccinated against Covid19 in the summer
Havana, Mar 24 (Prensa Latina) 70 percent of Cubans will be immunized against SARS-Cov-2 between July and August, in a staggered vaccination strategy, which today involves different population groups between 19 and 80 years old. The first step constitutes the two phase III clinical trials that are being carried out with Soberana 02 and Abdala, Continue reading
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China and Cuba develop vaccine against various strains of SARS-CoV-2 that cause Covid19
Beijing, Mar 21 (Prensa Latina) China and Cuba are working on obtaining a vaccine, called Pan-Corona, that is effective against different strains of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and prevents Covid-19, it was reported today. According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, national scientists and those of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) of the Continue reading
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Cuban laboratories already produce two vaccines against Covid-19 on a large scale
Havana, Feb 25 (RHC) Thousands of bulbs of two Cuban own vaccines against Covid-19 are produced today in laboratories in the largest of the Antilles, after the start of the manufacture of Abdala, the second formulation towards phase III. Previously, the production of Soberana 02, the anti-Covid-19 proposal of the famous Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV), Continue reading
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Cuba already produces a large scale Soberana 02 vaccine against Covid19
Havana, Feb 21 (RHC) The president of the BioCubaFarma business group, Eduardo Martínez, toured the Biocen plant where a new batch of the Soberana 02 vaccine candidate is already being produced on a large scale, the most advanced in the country against Covid-19. BioCubafarma, on its official Twitter account, reiterated that the Cuban prototype is Continue reading
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‘Cuba will be able to immunize its entire population in 2021’
Taken from The Point Cuba prepares 100 million doses of vaccine against Covid-19 Havana, Jan 24 (RT) – «Our four vaccine candidates against the new coronavirus are very safe, the trials are going well,» said Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of BioCubaFarma, the business group for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries of the Caribbean island. In what Continue reading
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