Venezuela receives more than a million doses of the Cuban vaccine Abdala against the coronavirus

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, reported this Sunday that the Caribbean country received 1.6 million doses of the Cuban vaccine Abdala, against him coronavirus covid-19, after being approved in July for use in emergencies by the Center for State Control of Medicines (CECMED) of Cuba.

“Today 1.6 million (doses) of vaccines arrived Abdala from Cuba, who come to join ”, indicated the president in an address broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).

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Mature assured that Venezuela It has reached 70% of the vaccinated population, without specifying whether the percentage refers to inoculated with the two injections that are required to consider that a person is immunized, or only with the first dose.

“By November 30 we have to reach the goal of 80% of the vaccinated population and the goal that we have estimated for December 31 (is) to reach 90% of the vaccinated population”, he indicated.

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Likewise, the president announced that starting tomorrow the inoculation process will begin for children older than 2 years, although he did not offer details about which drug the minors will receive.

On October 21, the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, after a meeting with the first vice minister of Cuba, Ricardo Cabrisas and representatives of BioCubaFarma, assured that Venezuela will produce the Abdala vaccine, although to date it has not been reported if the vaccine has already started. manufacture of doses in the country.

Likewise, Rodríguez reported at that time that in the remainder of the year the Caribbean nation will receive 12 million doses of the drugs Abdala and Soberana II.

However, the Venezuelan Society of Infectology (SVI) rejected days later the use of the Cuban vaccines Abdala and Soberana II, still lacking “sufficient technical support and scientific endorsement”, so they do not recommend using it in adults and children, until that there is a “greater scientific weight for its use outside the experimental field”.

The vaccination process against covid-19 in Venezuela has accelerated in the last month with the arrival of several batches from Sputnik, Sinovac -through the Covax mechanism-, and from the Chinese Sinopharm.

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