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Diaz-Canel highlights Cuba s achievements on World Health Day
Diaz-Canel highlights Cuba s achievements on World Health Day
Havana, Apr 7 (Prensa Latina) President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Wednesday highlighted Cuba s achievements in the fight against Covid-19, on the occasion of the World Health Day.
Cuba hails this date with strong and effective health protocols for Covid-19 patients, the president said on Twitter, and added that the island has five vaccine candidates in an advance phase of clinical trials, two of them ready.
The head of State recalled that there is free access to health care in Cuba when the World Health Organization and the Pan-American Health Organization note the unnecessary suffering caused by the existing inequality in this regard in other regions of the world.
COVAX vaccines due to arrive Thursday
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The first batch of Covid-19 vaccines heading to Antigua and Barbuda via the international COVAX scheme is set to arrive in two days.
The nation is due to receive 24,000 doses of the AstraZeneca shot on Thursday morning under the initiative co-founded by the World Health Organization.
A “delivery schedule” posted to the Pan-American Health Organization’s website – and updated yesterday – shows that the shipment is already in transit.
Barbados, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, St Kitts and Nevis, and St Vincent and the Grenadines are set to receive their COVAX vaccines today, with Grenada and St Lucia due to get theirs on Wednesday.
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image captionThere has been a spike of deaths in recent weeks in Brazil
Coronavirus figures released by health authorities across South America on Monday show a number of countries grappling with a spike in infections and deaths.
Uruguay and Paraguay registered record numbers of daily deaths, while the total number of Covid cases surpassed the 13-million mark in Brazil.
The surge has been attributed to the spread of the Brazil variant.
The variant is thought to be more than twice as transmissible as the original.
What is the Brazil variant?
Brazilian public health institute Fiocruz says it has detected 92 variants of coronavirus in the country. Experts say that the development of new variants is not surprising: all viruses mutate as they make copies of themselves to spread.