Cuba ranks 2nd in the world with most people vaccinated

Havana, dec 12 (Prensa Latina) Cuba ranks second worldwide in the number of people partly vaccinated against Covid-19 with 90%, behind United Arab Emirates (98%), and followed by Portugal (89%), Chile (88%) and Singapore (87%) in the top five, according to Our World in Data.

December 12, 2021
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Until Saturday, December 11, Cuban health authorities had vaccinated with at least one shot of their nationally-made vaccine 10,217,205 people, out of a population of 11 million, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Sunday.

Some 9,262,225 people have received a second dose and 9,357,454 are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. A total of 28,960,590 doses of national vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have been administered in Cuba to date.

BioCubaFarma’s director of Scientific Policy, Rolando Perez, explained that vaccination against Covd-19 is based on a three-dose scheme for full immunization, and they have now started administering the booster vaccine.

Gaining worldwide recognition, Cuba has produced its own vaccines: Abdala, Sovereign 02 and Sovereign Plus and Sovereign 01 (being used as booster shots ), and the internasal Mambisa which is on its final clinical trials.