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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel praised today the success of the COVID-19 pediatric immunization program launched in the country in preventing any decease among children and shared the results of a study by the Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute proving that, during the Omicron surge, the vaccine Soberana was 90.1% effective in the 2 to 5 age group and 95.8% in children between the ages of two and eighteen.

More than 49,300 children from zero to six years of age are attended by the Educate Your Child Program in the province of Holguín. Yanelis López Batista, methodologist in charge of the issue at the Provincial Directorate of Education (DPE), commented that of them, more than 26,300 live in the urban sector and more than 22,900 in the rural sector, making it the largest number of Holguin children educated through non-institutional means.
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