The United States continues not to accept Cuba's collaboration to investigate into health incidents occurred in 2017 on US diplomats in Cuba´s capital, according to Cuba's Academy of Sciences said Monday.

Doctor Argelio Hernández was the first to receive the dose of the vaccine candidate Abdala in Gibara. Photo: Gibara Vision

The health intervention with the anti-Covid-19 Abdala vaccine candidate began today in the province of Holguín with health workers, students of Medical Sciences and other vulnerable people exposed to the transmission of the disease in the territory.

90 percent of the population of the province of Holguín, which exceeds one million inhabitants, already has the complete anti-COVID-19 vaccination scheme, after the application of the Cuban immunogen Abdala, with 100 percent effectiveness in the prevention of serious illness and death.