Cuba Claims Locally Produced COVID Vaccine Shows 92 Percent Efficacy

  • Date: 23-Jun-2021
  • Source: Al Bawaba
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:Gulf
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Cuba Claims Locally Produced COVID Vaccine Shows 92 Percent Efficacy

"Hit by two pandemics [COVID-19 and the US blockade], our scientists at the Finlay Institute and the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biology [CIGB] have jumped over all the hurdles and given us two very effective vaccines: #SOBERANA02 and #Abdala,“ Miguel Diaz-Canel, who is also first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, said on Twitter.

With these preliminary results, the vaccine would exceed the 50% efficacy threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider vaccines for emergency authorization.

The announcement comes two days after state-run biopharmaceutical corporation BioCubaFarma said the vaccine candidate SOBERANA 02 has shown 62% efficacy with just two of its three doses.