Cuba to deliver 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by April
Havana (Xinhua)- Cuba could deliver the first million doses of its Soberana 02 COVID-19 vaccine candidate by late April, the country's biopharmaceutical authorities said Thursday during a televised address.
"Cuban vaccines are going well," said Eduardo Martinez, president of BioCubaFarma, a state company gathering 21 research centers and 32 companies. "Cuba will be one of the first nations to immunize its entire population."
Cuba Will Produce 100 Million Doses of Its COVID-19 Vaccine
This year, Cuba will produce 100 million doses of its new Soberana 02 coronavirus vaccine to meet its internal demand and those of other countries, a leading Cuban scientist reported on Wednesday.
"We are reorganizing our production capacities because we really have a lot of demand for the vaccine and we have to prepare ourselves," Vicente Vérez, director of the Finlay Institute, told a group of journalists at a conference in which he gave a tour of the laboratory where the vaccine against COVID-19 is manufactured.
Opening Remarks by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, at the Third Joint Cuba-European Union Council Meeting
January 20, 2021.
Once again we are pleased to greet His Excellency Mr. Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, whom we welcome for being this the first time that he attends the Joint Cuba-EU Council meetings. We likewise appreciate the presence of Minister Arancha and the representatives of member States, who are key actors in the implementation of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA).