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Cuba completed vaccination of almost 70 percent of population

Vacunación en Cuba
Havana, nov 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuba completed vaccination against Covid-19 with national drugs for 7,810,402 people (69.8 percent of the population), the Health Ministry reported today.

At least one dose was administered to 10,036,001 people, while the second to 9,035,413 and 7,381,901 got a third dose, the ministry’s website added, with data from November 8.

The total number of inoculations with Soberana 02, Soberana Plus or Abdala vaccines in the Island amounted to 26,453,315.

In addition to having three vaccines against Covid-19 validated for emergency use, the Island has two other candidates: Soberana 01 and Mambisa, the latter the only one from the 10 existing in the world designed to be administered by the nasal route.

Cuba was the first country on the planet to start a mass immunization campaign against Covid-19 in children from 2 to 18 years of age with immunizers Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus, in a plan of three doses separated by 28 days.

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