Cuba today has 10 million 581 thousand 126 people with at least one dose of anti-Covid-19 vaccine, a figure that places the country in third place in the world in this indicator.
According to figures from this day from the statistics site of the British University of Oxford, Our World in Data, they only surpass the Caribbean nation, the United Arab Emirates and Portugal, while they are followed by Brazil, the United States, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Bangladesh. and Russia, in the top 10.
The Finlay Institute, producer of the Sovereign 02 and Sovereign Plus drugs, disclosed through the social network Twitter its pride in such a location, since – he added – from the beginning of the epidemic a strategy was designed from a scientific perspective and based on its own immunizers.
Information from the Our World in Data website indicates that 61.5 percent of the planet’s population has received at least one injection of the Covid-19 vaccine and 10.24 billion doses have been administered globally.
Only 10.4 percent of people in low-income states have received at least the first administration, specifies the high British university, showing the inequity in equitable access to biologicals against SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
Since before the end of the year 2021, Our World in Data places Cuba at the head in doses applied per 100 citizens, with a current index of 305.29.
Chile (244.05), the United Arab Emirates (237.32), China (208.46), Brazil (173.21), the United States (163.74), Mexico (130.26), India (121.72), Indonesia (117.61) and closes the top 10 Russia (106.76).
To date -according to the Ministry of Public Health- 34 million 551 thousand 520 applied doses of the national biological Abdala, from the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, have accumulated in the country, in addition to Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus and Abdala.
Of that total, nine million 354 thousand 969 people have the second administration and a third, nine million 27 thousand 419 Cubans.
In addition, a total of 5,587,846 people have booster doses, which represents 50 percent of the vaccinable population.
Cuba began its vaccination campaign in May 2021 and since then it has made steady progress and has even helped Iran, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Mexico and Syria with its vaccines.
