The Cuban Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices approved the phase I/II clinical trial to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine candidate Mambisa -intranasal- and the Abdala vaccine -intramuscular-, a study to boost immunity in convalescents of COVID-19.
The efficacy of the Soberana 02 vaccine candidate in its three-dose schedule together with Soberana Plus is 91.2%, which exceeds the World Health Organization (WHO) requirements for a vaccine candidate against COVID-19 to become a vaccine, which is 50%.
Design, obtaining and preclinical assessment of Cuban anti-Covid Soberana 02 vaccine candidate reached the headlines of the US magazine ACS Chemical Biology, paving the way for other antiviral vaccines.
The Immunoassay Center has developed a new product to diagnose the Sars-Cov-2 virus.
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.