From a conversation with his Kenyan counterpart, H.E. Mutahi Kagwe, José Angel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health of Cuba, expressed that negotiations are continuing for the safe return to the Homeland of doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodríguez Hernández, kidnapped in Kenya on April 12, 2019.
In the six decades of Cuban medical collaboration abroad, its health personnel have assisted 1.988 billion people in the world, almost a third of mankind, said Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, director of the Central Unit for Medical Cooperation (UCCM).
Industrial production has begun of Cuba’s candidate vaccines Soberana 02 and Abdala (CIGB-66), two of the four developed on the island to combat COVID-19, with progress advancing at BioCubaFarma facilities.
The days ahead do not seem favorable for the prevention and control of COVID-19. At least that is what short-term forecasts predict. Confirmed cases will increase; recovered patients will also increase, but on a smaller scale than the number of new patients.
Cuban scientists announced the production of the first batch of 150,000 Soberana 02 vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes the COVID-19 disease that has already killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide.