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Cuba\u2019s Abdala coronavirus candidate vaccine showed \u201cefficacy\u201d of more than 92 per cent after three doses, its maker said Monday, though it did not specify whether this was measured against infection, disease, or death.<\/p>

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Cuba is working on five coronavirus vaccines, and last month started immunising its population using two of them yet to complete clinical trials.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the BioCubaFarma laboratory tweeted that Abdala \u2014 one of the two already in use \u2014 \u201cshows an efficacy of 92.28 per cent in its three-dose scheme\u201d.<\/p>

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The World Health Organization has set a 50 per cent efficacy threshold for coronavirus vaccines to offer protection against the virus or disease.<\/p>

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The announcement came two days after authorities announced that Soberana 2, the other three-dose shot being developed in Cuba, was 62 per cent effective after the first two shots.<\/p>\n

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel welcomed the news as an achievement which \u201cwill multiply pride\u201d in the communist island nation.<\/p>\n

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Cuba has been relatively unscathed by the outbreak but has seen a recent sharp increase in cases, registering one of its worst days Monday with 1,561 confirmed infections in 24 hours. To date, it has recorded just over 169,000 cases and 1,170 deaths.<\/p>

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Under American sanctions, Cuba has a long tradition of making its own vaccines, dating back to the 1980s.<\/p>\n

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Nearly 80 per cent of its vaccines are produced locally and it hopes to come up with the first locally-produced coronavirus shot in Latin America.<\/p>\n

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