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