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Arrival of Canadian tourists at Cayo Coco airport, in central Cuba. Photo: Agencia Cubana de Noticias news agency/Archive.

Cuba announces it will gradually open its borders in November

Hoping for the effectiveness of its vaccines and the projection that more than 90% of the population will complete the vaccination scheme in November, Cuba is preparing the conditions to gradually open the borders as of the 15th of that month, according to the state-run newspaper Granma. In its digital edition, the newspaper reproduced this Sunday the brief note from the Ministry of Tourism by which it notified that “hygienic-sanitary protocols will be made more flexible upon travelers’ arrival, focusing on monitoring symptomatic patients and taking temperature. In addition, diagnostic tests will be carried out randomly, a PCR test will not be required upon arrival and travelers’ vaccination certificate will be recognized.” https://twitter.com/JuannCarlosGG/status/1434849170729455635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1434849170729455635%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-anuncia-que-en-noviembre-abrira-paulatinamente-sus-fronteras%2F For this reason, the opening of the domestic tourist market will begin gradually, according to each territory’s epidemiological indicators, the source said. After opening its borders last October, Cuba reduced international entry since the beginning of this year due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the worst the country has experienced since March 2020, when the first three cases of coronavirus were reported. In recent weeks, infections have remained above 7,000 and deaths over 80 a day. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/cuba-recibio-menos-de-250-000-turistas-y-viajeros-hasta-mayo/ Until last May, 88 239 foreign tourists had entered the...

Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine. Photo: perlavision.cu

Cuba renounces immunizing “its entire population” only with its own COVID-19 vaccines

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...

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