All people visiting Cuba will be able to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination will be free of charge. According to La Vanguardia, Helen Yaffe, an economist specializing in Cuba at the University of Glasgow and author of the book We are Cuba, is committed to offering free vaccines to all tourists and visitors. However, the vaccination schedule of Soberana 02, three doses in six weeks, would leave out short-stay visitors.

Havana’s biotech sector, consisting of a set of government-run laboratories, is developing four vaccines and, at the most advanced stage, the so-called Soberana 02, is about to enter the third phase of testing. The vaccine is expected to get the green light from the pharmaceutical regulator in Cuba by mid-March next.

According to the Efe agency, the Soberana 02 vaccine is now entering the third and final phase of clinical research on the vacuna.Segun reported ARGIA in late January, the second phase of the vaccine began early in the year and has taken two months to arrive tested on nearly 1,000 volunteers 3.era. The Italian immunologist Fabrizio Chiodo, who participates in the project, has indicated that the vaccine is prepared to be administered to the population between 35 and 85 years old with the objective of exporting it after the initial immunization of Cubans.

Excess 02 should not be stored at very low temperatures, so it is more useful in developing countries than the new generation of vaccines such as Pfizer. The group of companies in the state of BioCuba is in charge of researching and developing vaccines. According to his estimates, if the tests go well, Cuba could manufacture 100 million doses this year to protect the 11 million Cubans and export what remains to Iran, India, Pakistan, Venezuela, Bolivia and Vietnam.

Disease management

The state quarantine and the public health system that is present in all neighborhoods have allowed only 47,000 people to have been contaminated in the isla.De made, thanks to the effectiveness of the medicines used in the treatment of the disease, most of them manufactured in it, only 308 people have died. They are the best results in Latin America. For example, in the Dominican Republic the population is almost the same and of the 240,000 infected, 3,000 have died.