Cuban Public Health Minister Jose Angel Portal Miranda informed that the country is now under the community transmission phase for COVID-19 given the high contagious impact by the virus and the increase of its incidence levels over the past 15 days, add to this the circulation of highly contagious variants of the SARS-CoV-2.
The study of the Cuban anti-COVID candidate vaccine will include 350 children and adolescents, 50 in Phase I and 300 in Phase II, conducted in an overlapping and gradual process, in strict compliance with protocols and best practices.
Health authorities reported on Tuesday that 1.6 million Cubans have received all three doses of Covid-19 vaccine candidates in the different forms administered in the country.
With the circulation of new mutational variants of the SARS-CoV-2 in the province of Holguín, it is observed in the course of the epidemic that the stages of development of the infectious process in the individual have shortened in time, in addition to a sustained rise in the report of positive cases.
Cuba is likely to become the first country in the world to have its entire population vaccinated by the end of 2021 against Covid-19 with its own vaccines, said on Thursday the president of BioCubaFarma, Eduardo Martinez.