Cuba starts mass inoculations with own Covid-19 shot without regulatory nod
Cuban vaccine producers expect emergency use authorisation in June, while government says it wants to get a head start on curbing infections
13 May 2021 - 21:10
Havana — Cuba has started a mass vaccination campaign against Covid-19 using one of its five home-grown vaccine candidates which, if proven effective, could improve access to inoculations across Latin America, one of the regions hardest hit by the pandemic.
Cuba’s state-run biopharmaceutical sector, which has a history of developing, producing and exporting serums, has concluded late-phase trials for the vaccine, Abdala, in more than 48,000 volunteers but not yet published the results...
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