Life is showing that our children and adolescents are being hit, with increasing force, by the COVID-19. For them, the threat posed by the epidemic has increased, and one of the great challenges is that the main source of contagion in the Cuban pediatric universe is in the domestic contacts.
The 5.1 magnitude earthquake that shook western Cuba is a normal event, though rare, said Olearys Gonzalez, director of the National Center for Seismological Research, which is based in this city.
The third group of the Henry Reeve International Contingent brigade that provided medical assistance against Covid-19 in South Africa has reportedly returned to Cuba.
More than 500 aftershocks were registered in western Cuba on Wednesday, after the 5.1-magnitude earthquake that shook a significant part of that territory on Tuesday, the National Seismological Service (SSN) reported.
The CECMED is currently analyzing the approval file to issue the emergency use authorization of the ABDALA vaccine candidate against the COVID-19.
Cuba’s Health Ministry—MINSAP—reported that as of June 19 four million 855 thousand 270 doses of its COVID-19 candidate vaccines had already been administered as part of the development strategy for those locally developed biotech products.
Food production is vital to the very subsistence of the people. The weapons of the economic, commercial and financial US blockade against Cuba have also been directed towards this very sensitive program.
The Cuban COVID-19 candidate vaccine named ABDALA has all necessary conditions to be considered an effective product against SARS-Cov-2, after proving 92,28 percent efficacy in preventing the symptomatic disease.
The Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, after a debate yesterday with local experts, emphasized on the need to stregnhten the care protocols for Covid-19 patients in serious and critical conditions.
With the vaccination of the young Gabriel Garcia, the clinical trials with the Cuban anti-COVID-19 SOBERANA 02 vaccine candidate with the pediatric population began at the Juan Manuel Marquez Pediatric Hospital of the capital.
As part of the health interventions, the clinical trials and intervention studies conducted to date with the Cuban vaccine candidates against the COVID-19, more than one million people have been vaccinated.
Together with more than thirty professionals, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, received a PhD from the Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas (UCLV). Speaking on behalf of everyone present, he highlighted the role of this university in the development of Villa Clara and Cuba.
The touristic sector in Villa Clara aspires to obtain the status of Outstanding on its environmental performance, as part of the Conference for the World Environment Day, to be held next June 5th.
