Health workers, students of Medical Sciences and other risk groups, including those from the Tourism sector, the Ministry of the Interior and Transportation in the province of Holguín began to receive single anti-COVID booster doses of Abdala, with the aim of maintaining immunity against the lethal disease.

With the highest rate of patients recovered from COVID-19 in the Americas -94.2% as of March 20 - and two candidate vaccines in the final stage of clinical trials, Cuba is consolidating its national strategy to confront the pandemic, with results recently recognized by Bolivia’s President Luis Arce.

Photo: Heidi Calderón Suárez

Inés María Chapman Waugh, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, checked the progress of the construction works at Levisa dam, in the Holguín municipality of Mayarí, the main hydraulic investment being carried out associated with the East-West transfer in the eastern territory.