Tonight Cuba thanked them once again. In the protocol hall of the Council of State "El Laguito" in Havana, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the PCC and president, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, awarded the title of Hero of Labor of the Republic of Cuba to 10 eminent scientists behind the production of the three vaccines and the two Cuban vaccine candidates against covid-19.
The decoration was conferred to Gerardo Enrique Guillén Nieto, Eulogio Pimentel Vázquez, Marta Ayala Ávila, Vicente Guillermo Vérez Bencomo, Yury Valdés Balbín, Dagmar García Rivera, Belinda Sánchez Ramírez, Tammy Boggiano Ayo, Eduardo Ojito Magaz and Lorenzo Jorge Pérez Ávila.
Likewise, also in the presence of Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz and Political Bureau member Roberto Morales Ojeda, the "Lazaro Peña" Order of First Degree was awarded to 47 scientists linked to vaccines and Cuban science.
Minutes before being decorated, the deputy director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV), Valdés Balbín, declared that this title is received on behalf of many people. "We have been working very hard for a year and a half. We all came together in response to a call we received from the Homeland and we believe that we responded to the challenge. We are bringing health to our people and our children, which is what moves us the most and makes us happy".
The research director of the Center for Molecular Immunology (Cim), Belinda Sánchez Ramírez, pointed out that this is the result of the work of "many people who are not here today. We are hundreds of people from various institutions working together. What we have to feel is the satisfaction that Cuban science responded to the call and the need we had".
With information from Cubadebate.