MIAMI, United States. — The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) suggested the approval of a third dose of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidates Soberana 02 and Abdala, according to reports this Tuesday at a meeting on health issues chaired by the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel.
The application of this booster dose would be intended for the population between 19 and 69 years of age, once the period established for the application of the second booster is completed, the official newspaper reported. Granma.
The meeting discussed the possibility of the process being carried out “in stages and starting this month of April.” In this sense, it is also “planned to determine the annual anti-COVID-19 vaccination periodicity, so that it is included in the National Immunization Program of Cuba.”
At the meeting, Díaz-Canel congratulated the experts for making several vaccine candidates possible to immunize Cubans.
“There are the fruits: a Cuban model of confrontation with COVID-19 was born; Cuba achieved the immunity of its people through vaccination”, highlighted the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).
The president said that all this was possible thanks to “collective intelligence.”
“Hundreds of thousands of Cubans participated in the vaccination strategy; Some 400 doses were administered for every hundred inhabitants, and all of this, as Dr. Ileana Morales commented, will go down in the history of scientific successes,” said the ruler.
According to Granma, the experts and scientists highlighted “the safety that distinguishes the Cuban vaccines against COVID-19” and promised to “continue working to maintain the state of immunity of the population.”
The creation of Cuban vaccine candidates, who have not received certification from the World Health Organization (WHO), will also be taught in educational centers in the country, where students will be explained “what vaccines have meant in the history of humanity”.
