The Islamic Republic of Iran will be the first nation to produce one of the vaccines created by Cuban scientists to combat the COVID-19 pandemicaccording to official media on the island.
The Soberana 02 immunogen, created by specialists from the Finlay Institute of Vaccines (IFV), will begin to be produced in the plant called Pasto Corona, thanks to the technological transfer of the Cuban scientific institution to the Pasteur Institute, of the Persian nation, according to a published note by the official newspaper Granma.
#sovereign02the world’s first conjugate vaccine against #COVID19will be produced in this Production Plant in #Iran.#sovereign02 It is marketed in that country as #PastuCovac. Iran becomes the first in the world to produce one of the #CubanVaccines anti-Covid19#Science ?? pic.twitter.com/PKSrQs7wAE
— Finlay Vaccine Institute (@FinlayInstituto) May 15, 2022
According to the IFV, sovereign 02 – the first conjugate vaccine against COVID-19 worldwide – will be marketed in that country as PastuCovac, the media reports.
The Granma also reviews a publication made on the same social network by the company BioCubaFarma, informing that the opening of the facility took place within the framework of the XVIII session of the Cuba-Iran Intergovernmental Commission, which will take place until this Monday, and to which The Deputy Prime Minister of Cuba, Ricardo Cabrisas, and the Minister of Health of Iran, Bahram Einollahi, attended.
At the intergovernmental session held in Tehran, Cabrisas expressed the Cuban government’s willingness to deepen and expand economic relations in health, energy, food production and agriculture.
The media outlet specifies that the Cuban official condemned the unilateral coercive measures that the US applies against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and thanked the Iranian Foreign Ministry for its systematic position against the economic, commercial and financial embargo that the US administration imposes. to Cuba, as well as his opposition to the inclusion of the Island in the list of State sponsors of terrorism.
Bahram Einollahi, for his part, expressed his satisfaction with the excellent state of political relations achieved by both nations, and reaffirmed his Government’s interest in increasing economic, commercial, financial and cooperation ties, details the information from Granma.
