Archivo de March, 2021

13 March, 2021 Measures to empower women debated in Cuba

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Friday highlighted the analysis of measures to economically empower Cuban women and guarantee all their rights, as part of the government agenda.

13 March, 2021 Cuba’s vaccine supplements phase III in Iran

Cuba’s anti-Covid-19 vaccine candidate Soberana 02 (Spanish for ‘sovereign’) is supplementing phase III of its clinical trials in Iran with the arrival of 100,000 doses in that country, BioCubaFarma announced on Friday in this capital.

11 March, 2021 Cuba reports 778 new Covid-19 cases

The national director of Epidemiology at the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), Dr. Francisco Duran, reported 778 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths in the last 24 hours. Dr. Duran explained in his daily press conference on television that 4,656 people with Covid-19 are hospitalized and the total number of deaths rose to 361, while the overall number of contagions in Cuba since March 2020 has reached 59,157.

11 March, 2021 Clinical trials of Cuban vaccine underway

Cuba’s Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (Cecmed) has begun an inspection of the Phase III clinical trial of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidate Soberana 02.