The Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, considered of concern by the World Health Organization, is present throughout Cuba and has replaced the previously predominant Beta variant, a scientific authority said today.

Over 1.3 thousand women including 500 pregnant and some 800 breastfeeding mothers have already received a first dose of the Cuban COVID-19 vaccine Abdala in this Cuban city, some 140 kilometers from Havana.

A donation of medical items was shipped from the Region of Lombardy to Cuba by the Youth Section of the Italian Private Hospitality Association.

The first 25 teenagers included in Cuba's Soberana-Pediatrics anti-Covid-19 clinical trial received Monday the dose of the Soberana Plus vaccine candidate to conclude the vaccination scheme announced the leaders of the project.