HAVANA,\u00a0Cuba\u00a0(AFP) \u2014 Cuba on Friday approved two more domestic COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use, the island nation’s medication regulatory body said.<\/p>\n
The authorisation came after a “rigorous evaluation process of the Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus vaccines,” the body, CECMED, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The two Soberana vaccines are complementary.<\/p>\n
Last month, Cuba became the first Latin American country to approve a home-made vaccine when CECMED gave the go-ahead to the Abdala jab.<\/p>\n
The news comes at a time when the island nation faces particularly high infection rates.<\/p>\n
CECMED director Olga Lidia Jacobo said the decision was made after “evaluating all the results related to the vaccines’ effectiveness and efficacy”.<\/p>\n
Cuban health authorities say the Soberana immunization program is 91.2 per cent effective against symptomatic cases.<\/p>\n
It involves two doses of Soberana 02 followed by a third with Soberana Plus.<\/p>\n
Abdala also requires three doses.<\/p>\n
Cuba began administering both Soberana and Abdala in its worst affected areas in May as part of a clinical testing process.<\/p>\n
A little over three million Cubans have received all three doses, 4.3 million have had at least two and 4.8 million have had at least one.<\/p>\n
Over the last 24 hours, Cuba recorded more than 9,700 new cases and 78 deaths from COVID-19, bringing its totals to 564,000 infections and just under 4,400 fatalities.<\/p>\n
As of August 18, the country of 11.2 million people had administered 12.3 million vaccine doses.<\/p>\n
Yet cases began soaring in July due to the arrival of the Delta variant and some provinces have even recorded shortages of oxygen to treat patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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