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This Sunday the vaccination process against COVID-19 began in the Cuban province of Cienfuegos. The fact would not be a novelty in Cuba — which already has three of its own immunogens approved by the island’s regulatory authority — were it not for a detail: Cienfuegos will be immunized with a scheme that contains a Chinese vaccine. The news that the island would use the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine has raised many questions. What is its cause? Why use a foreign vaccine whose efficacy is lower than that shown in clinical trials by those created on the island? Why use it now and not before? These questions arise, in part, from the statements of authorities and specialists disclosed so far in the official Cuban media, according to which the island would become the first country in the world to immunize its entire population with its own vaccines and promised to produce 100 million doses to achieve it. The official propaganda even recycled the slogan of the failed 1970 sugar harvest, the so-called “10-million-ton harvest,” which at the time generated criticism and controversy. Nothing indicated that there would be a change in plans, even due to the fact that the Cuban authorities...
This will be the first foreign-manufactured vaccine to be applied on the island, which has three of its own immunogens already approved for emergency use.
Through his Twitter account, the head of the WHO thanked the island’s permanent representative in Geneva, Juan Antonio Quintanilla, and pointed out that the international entity supports Cuba's struggle against COVID-19, “even investing in the capacity of locally manufacturing of vaccines and prioritizing public health measures to contain the transmission” of the virus.
The beneficiaries must comply with performance parameters, application of science and technology, have irrigation systems and have the industry and agricultural markets as the destination of their crops, while the availability of food and water will be essential for cattle farmers.
“This model reiterates that we are in a peak zone of confirmed cases and in the coming weeks the number of confirmed and deceased will continue to be very high,” said the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing of the University of Havana.
The new entity, according to Decree-Law 41 published this Tuesday, “has the mission of leading and controlling the Social Communication Policy of the Cuban State and Government; proposing its improvement, as well as contributing to promoting the culture of dialogue and consensus in Cuban society.”
In an article on its website, the Vietnamese government pointed out that the offer stems from a telephone conversation the day before between Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Resolution 105 “National Action Model for responding to cybersecurity incidents,” published in the Gaceta Oficial No. 92, comes one month after last July’s anti-government protests — articulated and disseminated largely through social networks —, which has generated criticism and suspicion about it.
According to what Katia Leyva Mejías, Palitos’ creator, told the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency, it is an undertaking that arose from the need to provide her son with some non-existent toys in the country’s commercial network, which suffers from a severe shortage due to the economic crisis increased by the pandemic.
“It is false that Fincimex, the Cuban government or the armed forces appropriated 20 or 40% of the money remitted to Cuba from the United States,” said Yamil Hernández González, general manager of Fincimex.
Despite the suspension of the Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) compensation mechanism. Venus Rodríguez Hernández, legal and insurance director of the company, declared that the airline will honor the commitments made with clients.
The province was also the venue of the phase I, II and III clinical trials of Soberana 02, which made it possible to vaccinate 30,770 people, in addition to the interventions in health workers and risk groups. These figures, together with the 1,252,000 from the Abdala intervention, totaled 1.4 million vaccinated people.
The head of the National Nephrology Group and leader of the research, Dr. Raúl Herrera, stated that the usual prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Cuba is around 10%, but the study of convalescents from COVID-19 shows an increase in those figures.
“The policy of hostility and isolation is not improving democracy or human rights on the island; rather, it is politicizing a humanitarian crisis and distracting from dynamic and actionable solutions,” said Cuban-American Jorge Quintana.
By virtue of resolution 180/2021 of the MINCEX, the representative office of Fuego Enterprises Inc., owned by Cuban-American businessman Hugo Cancio, has been the first of its kind authorized on the island.
Excerpt from an unpublished interview with Cuban National Prize for Social Sciences Fernando Martínez Heredia.
The objective of the regulation is to increase the participation of individuals in the electricity generation matrix, to advance in the development of renewable energy sources on the island.
According to the MINSAP, to date 3,491,529 people have received at least one dose of one of the Cuban vaccine candidates. Of these, 2,957,182 people already have a second dose and 2,464,430 a third dose.
According to a statement from the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), it is a study without placebo, which includes Cuban children and teenagers between 12 and 18 years of age in Camagüey.
The top officials of the Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s Office explained in a press conference that shortened judicial procedures are currently being carried out against those accused of “minor crimes” and denied that there is an “avalanche of judicial cases.”
Its effectiveness against new worrying variants of SARS-CoV-2 is being studied.
Cubans will be able to buy on credit goods whose prices exceed 2,500 pesos, such as furniture, mattresses, bicycles and electrical appliances, in accordance with Resolution 98/2021 of the Island's Ministry of Domestic Trade (MINCIN). Published this Tuesday in the extraordinary Gaceta Oficial Extraordinaria No. 66, the resolution establishes that Cuban citizens with permanent domicile in the country, who reside in the province where the sale is requested, and are over 18 years old, have legal and payment capacity, will have access to this service, the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency reported. Among other requirements to access payment in installments, buyers must have demonstrable, fixed and guaranteed regular income, and have honored or be honoring other debts contracted under this mode of sale, the source indicated. Likewise, they must present at the retail establishment their identity documents, personal data and the certification of the ability to pay of a guarantor. https://twitter.com/BetsyDazVelzqu2/status/1418235517762785280?s=20 According to the resolution, to carry out this procedure, the client must also show a certification from the workplace with the salary earned, and in the case of self-employed workers, an affidavit of personal income taxes. For their part, pensioners or beneficiaries of social assistance will present...
“Instead of maintaining the path set by Trump in his efforts to undo President Obama’s opening to Cuba, we call on you to move forward. Resume the opening and begin the process of ending the embargo. Ending the severe shortages in food and medicine must be the top priority,” they ask Biden.
“There is a Walt Disney story of bad government and people fighting for their freedom, stereotypes that scare anyone who has never set foot in Cuba, because of their arrogance and disregard for the truth,” said Johana Tablada, deputy director general of the United States of the MINREX.
