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Cuba's vaccine coverage and focus on children helped beat back omicron, experts say

By Dave Sherwood and Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's widespread COVID-19 vaccination coverage and early move to inoculate its children proved piv...

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/CUBA-VACCINES (TV, PIX):Cuba soars to near top of COVID vaccination charts on decades-old bet

By Dave Sherwood and Anett Rios HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has vaccinated more of its citizens against COVID-19 than most of the world's largest and rich...

Cuba, which to date had deployed exclusively its homegrown COVID-19 vaccines, yesterday started also using the Sinopharm vaccine of its communist-run ally China in its bid to battle one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the world. Health authorities would apply two doses of Sinopharm combined with a Cuban booster in the central province of Cienfuegos from yesterday, Vicente Verez, the head of the Cuban Finlay Vaccine Institute, was cited as saying by the provincial state-run media 5deSeptiembre...

By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba, which to date had deployed exclusively its homegrown COVID-19 vaccines, will start also using the Sinopharm va...

Cuba’s president slams social media ‘hatred’ after protestsInternational 2021-07-18, by Editor Comments Off 0 Havana, Cuba – The Cuban government held a massive rally in the early hours of Saturday morning on Havana’s Malecon, the city’s famed corniche, at the end of a week of unrest that spurred a slew of international criticism. Crowds for the “Act of Revolutionary Reaffirmation” rally in the Cuban capital, which the gov...

Cuba facing worst health crisis of the pandemic 3 minutes read By Atahualpa Amerise Havana, Jul 7 (EFE).- While a large portion of the world is recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, Cuba is suffering its worst outbreak with new infection records being set almost daily and the healthcare system on the verge of collapse in the province of Matanzas, where patients are piling up in the halls of hospitals and there is a scarcity of medications to treat them. The Covid-19 infection rate in Cuba ov...

Cubas push for coronavirus vaccine sovereignty The Conversation 07 May 2021, 22:42 GMT+10 This is a transcript of episode 14 of The Conversation Weekly podcast Cubas race for a coronavirus vaccine + making lifes big decisions. In this episode, how Cuba is pushing ahead with developing its own coronavirus vaccines - and could be nearing "vaccine sovereignty". And we hear from a researcher about what he learned from asking hundreds of people about the biggest decisions of their lives. NOTE: Trans...

Cuba a year into pandemic having huge case spike but believes in vaccine 2 minutes read By Lorena Canto Havana, Mar 11 (efe-epa).- A year after detecting its first coronavirus cases, Cuba is experiencing the worst wave yet of coronavirus infections even as it continues to push forward to be the first Latin American country to develop a vaccine to immunize its entire population against Covid-19. Three Italian tourists on March 11, 2020, were the first confirmed carriers of the Sars-CoV-2 virus...