Lto the Federal Commission for the Protection against health risks (Cofepris) has authorized the emergency use of the vaccine versus COVID-19 Soberana of Cuban origin, which can now be used in adults to continue with the national strategy of vaccination.
The sovereign vaccine It is applied in three doses: two with the formula known as Soberana 02 and then the booster known as Sovereign Plus, which according to the island’s health authorities reaches an efficacy of 91.2 percent. The Caribbean government used this vaccine to immunize its population −children and adults− amid a regrowth in the middle of last year.
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According to a statement by cofepristhe certification process started more than a year ago and on 26 November 2021 they received the favorable opinion of the National Committee for Science and Technology and Innovation in Healthcare from Conacit.
However, it wasn’t until last September 9 when the Committee for New Molecules (CMN) There was a session on the approval or otherwise of this organic product, which finally received a favorable technical opinion from the experts in charge.
“After integrating the opinion of the CM extension and enter the emergency use permission request first cofeprispersonnel specialized in vaccines analyzed the data sheets, certifying that the organic product meets the quality, safety and efficacy requirements necessary to be applied”, reads the note of the Commission.
In this way, together with Abdala −which has been approved since December last year− Sovereign It is part of the catalog that the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador can use to fight the remnants of COVID-19 in the country.
Although on paper the effectiveness of Sovereign far exceeds the 50% effectiveness required by the World Health Organization To approve a drug of this type, so far the largest international health organization has not ruled on the matter, as is the case for the dose Russian Sputnik V which Mexico has authorized since February 2021.
The cofepris pointed out that being a Reference National Regulatory Authority (ARNr)rated by Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)its decisions are recognized by various countries of the continent, which makes the vaccines approved by this instance is likely to be used in other countries.
In the latest Technical Report on the Situation of Covid in Mexico, the Secretary of Health reported that between November 9 and 15 there were 5,504 infections, 38 deaths and 5,185 active cases, mainly, as in almost the entire pandemic, in Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Mexico City, Colima, Campeche, Baja California, Sonora , Chihuahua, Aguascalientes and Zacatecas.
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In total, seven million 436 thousand 675 positive cases of Covidof which 344 thousand 424 resulted in the death of the patient.
Last September, given the decline of contagious diaries of COVID-19the government of the president López Obrador has opted for the publication of the Technical Report on a weekly rather than a daily basis, so now the data is known every Tuesday.
