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Efforts continue for the return of the two doctors kidnapped in Kenya

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.

February 25, 2021
Written by Redacción ¡ahora!
Category: Health
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Cuba scales up industrial production of candidate vaccines

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.

February 18, 2021
Written by Orfilio Peláez
Category: Health
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Cuba´s COVID-19 cases will increase, according to forecasts

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.

February 17, 2021
Written by ACN
Category: Health
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Third dose of Mambisa vaccine COVID-19 candidate to be applied to volunteers

A third dose of the Mambisa vaccine candidate (CIGB-669) will be administered this week to a group of volunteers by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) while evaluating the immunology data of their short vaccination schedule.

February 4, 2021
Written by RHC
Category: Health
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