The Ambassador of Cuba in Mongolia, Jorge Ferrer, met with Ms. Yanjmaa Binderiya, Head of Division of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Health of this country, who was accompanied by Dr. Orgil Burentuvshin, official in charge of Loan, Aid Policy Help and Coordination of the same Division.
The two parties exchange views on the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministries of Health of both countries, signed in 2021, and exchanged information on the situation of the Covid-19 pandemic and the measures to control it in their respective countries.
The Ambassador shared that Covid-19 has caused 8 thousand 376 deaths in Cuba until late January for a lethality rate of 0.81% that is much lower that 1.58% in the world and 1.90% in the Americas, due to the hard work of our health professionals and also thanks to new Cuban made vaccines and biopharmaceuticals used the treatment protocols.
He also recalled that Cuba is the first country in Latin America and Caribbean to developed 3 vaccines against the virus, the first one in the world to vaccinate successfully children from 2 years old that no Cuban children have died since their vaccination and now is working on a clinical study with the Abdala vaccine in children under two years of age. Furthermore, Cuban vaccines have emergency use authorization by the regulatory bodies of 7 countries, besides Cuba and high levels of specific antibodies against the Omicron variant of Covid19 have been detected in clinical studies in those patients immunized with the national vaccines.
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