Cuba has begun commercial exports of its homegrown COVID-19 vaccines, sending shipments of the three-dose Abdala vaccine to Vietnam and Venezuela.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced the arrival in Vietnam on his Twitter feed Sunday. Cuba’s Center of Genetic Immunology and Biotechnology also announced that initial shipments of the Abdala shots were sent to Venezuela over the weekend.
Vietnam’s President Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited Cuba last week and toured the laboratory that produces the vaccine, announcing an agreement to buy at least 5 million doses.
Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s vice president, announced in June that the country had agreed to buy US$12 million worth of the Cuban vaccine, though officials have declined to say how many doses were involved.
Another Cuban-developed COVID-19 vaccine is being produced in Iran, which Cuba has asked the World Health Organization to approve in hopes to extend exports of its locally developed vaccines.
Cuban scientists have said the vaccines are more than 90 per cent effective against illness, though — like all vaccines — less so against mere infection.
Cuba plans to fully vaccinate 90 per cent of its population by the end of November — a key step to reopening an economy heavily dependent on tourism.
Cuba’s director of epidemiology, Francisco Durán, said Monday that the country of some 11 million people has registered 860,799 infections with COVID-19 and 7,279 deaths during the pandemic.
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Plz Mr. PM
Take even 100, really would take that one
Why plea to that wicked bastard, when he did not even take any vaccine, pretending that he cares about Antigua, after he collected all that blood money to follow through on his deal with Bill Gates and their secret societies, to wipe out at least half the population.
Boasting to the public that he took the Moderna, with his fake American Covid Vaccine card.
How fortunate that the shrink who he visits in the US for his mental shots, could sign using two different inks to justify authentication.
I hope all the blood monies he begged from Allan Stanford for his fake campaign promotions, and all the millions he stole as an investor in these off-shore investment banks he co-partnershiped, slowly rots his bones, and he and his nasty thieving family members burn in hell.
He is a disgrace to the Antiguan people and the government. When his reign is over, and we the people hope is very soon, that he would be remembered as a cowardly tyrant, a big time enriching thief, a lying hypocrite, and a major pervert for sleeping with the child-woman his son use to date, and the daughter of his ex-girlfriend. How much more licks will she take before she reports him. Nastiness and shame.
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