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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Cuba will be able to immunize its entire population against the coronavirus with its own vaccine in the first half of 2021, according to the director of the IFV (Finlay Institute of Vaccines), Vicente Vérez Bencomo.
The country is able to immunize the Cuban population against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the first half of 2021, said Vérez yesterday to Granma official newspaper.
Vérez made the statement before . . .
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Cuban scientists start second phase of Soberana 02 vaccine
Cuban scientists start second phase of Soberana 02 vaccine
Havana, Dec 22 (Prensa Latina) Cuban scientists started the second phase of clinical trial on the Soberana 02 vaccine on Tuesday, when the first volunteers were vaccinated.
Only a few days ago, the Finlay Institute of Vaccines (IFV), leaders of the project of the first anti-Covid-19 vaccine trials in Cuba, said that this second candidate would begin such stage after preliminary positive results. This way, the Soberana 02 candidate becomes the first Latin American vaccine to advance in the studies, experts added.
On her Twitter account, IFV Research Director Dagmar Garcia wrote that the vaccination of the first volunteers during the 2nd phase of clinical trials with Soberana 02 has begun.