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Cuba vaccine. There is also the other little matter of a COVID-19 vaccine. Trials for one of them called Sovereign I focus on protecting people previously infected with COVID-19. Biotechnology made in Cuba shows its strengths once again.

The communist nation has a powerful but often-overlooked medical sector. Cuba has a lot of experience in vaccine research. If the vaccine proves safe and effective.

Cubas Finlay Vaccine Institute has produced two COVID-19 vaccines. With a recorded 41688 cases and 282 deaths since March 2020 Cuba is working swiftly on solo efforts to ensure mass production of a coronavirus vaccine for the islands populationand. Countries such as India Vietnam Iran Venezuela and Pakistan have.

A technician working on the Sovereign 2 vaccine in. Cuba will start testing its own COVID-19 vaccine candidate next week according to the official Cuban registry of clinical trials. Cuba was the first candidate in Latin America and the Caribbean to have a vaccine in the clinical phase said José Moya local representative of the World Health Organization WHO who is.

Cuba has not talked of importing vaccines from elsewhere and said it intends to start vaccinating its population against COVID-19 with its own vaccine in the first half of the year. Cubas vaccine program has drawn interest from ally Venezuela whose president Nicolas Maduro said in August that the ALBA bloc of eight leftist Latin American and Caribbean countries backed it. There are none in Africa.

Cuba is partnering with Iran to produce a COVID-19 vaccine developed by scientists on the island the latest example of how the two US-sanctioned nations are building closer ties. The vaccine Soberana 01 was produced by the state-run Finlay. Researchers are working long shifts on Cubas best shot to solve its coronavirus crisis.

Amid bread shortages Cuba gets one step closer to a scientific milestone. Cubas top epidemiologist Francisco Duran told a daily briefing on Wednesday he expected a COVID-19 vaccine to be available worldwide from early next year skirting questions about Russias. The name of the vaccine translates from Spanish as Sovereign an ostensible nod to Cubas sense.

Cuba is getting closer to achieving the mass production of a coronavirus vaccine invented on the island. But Cuba is currently experiencing its worst economic outlook since the end of the Cold War so there is also an important economic incentive to a successful vaccine. Cubas Finlay Institute which was created by Fidel Castro and is owned and operated by the Cuban government is leading Latin America in vaccine development.

But it is not only Cubas medical teams that are of such critical importance to our Caribbean Community. The Caribbean island is currently working on one against the novel coronavirus while Russia is planning to have its own vaccine produced in Cuba. Cubas most promising vaccine candidate of the four it has in development is called Soberana 02.

Cuba is the only vaccine manufacturer in Latin America. The only state-owned entities producing the leading vaccines are those of Cuba and Russia. Known as the Soberana 02 the vaccine is Cubas most advanced candidate against the COVID-19 virus.

Cuba plans to launch the Phase 3 trial of the Soberana 02 vaccine in March. Soberana Spanish for sovereign 2 is a conjugate vaccine - meaning an antigen is fused to a carrier molecule to bolster the vaccines stability and effectiveness. According to Mr Gonzalez the COVID-19 vaccine Soberana 02 was Cubas most advanced candidate against the COVID-19 virus which had currently passed Phase I trials in Cuba.

The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology CIGB has submitted the technical file of their first vaccine candidate against COVID-19 to the State Center for the Control of Medicines Medical Equipment and Devices CECMED.