Although Cuba is one of the countries in the world with the greatest coverage of vaccination against COVID-19 and since the end of last year it has been carrying out the administration of booster doses, this last process seems to have stalled in recent days, according to the government’s own assessment.
Until March 4, a total of 6,013,335 people had received the booster on the Island, of which 282,495 as part of the Clinical Study and 5,730,840 as part of the booster vaccination that is being applied to the population of territories selected and risk groups, according to official data of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).
This would represent around 54.2% of the population, according to figures reflected by the official site Cubadebateaccording to which, however, the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, drew attention this Saturday to the little progress in the administration of these doses in recent days, during a government meeting.
“The Head of State told the Ministry of Public Health to analyze what has been happening with the booster vaccination, since for several days the percentage of immunized patients has hardly moved,” says the official report of the daily meeting of the island government. to analyze the situation of the pandemic.
According to the digital media, at that meeting, despite the fact that Cuba “maintains the tendency to control” COVID-19, the country’s highest authorities called for “not to fall into routine due to the improvement in numbers and to accelerate the pace of booster vaccination against SARS-CoV-2.
“Díaz-Canel reiterated the need to maintain high levels of immunization to maintain the favorable situation of recent months, a topic also discussed this week at the meeting with experts and scientists who advise the Cuban Government on health issues, who then reported that They carry out studies to evaluate when it is necessary to continue reinforcing against COVID-19, ”reviews Cubadebate.
According to the MINSAP, at the end of March 4, 35,063,358 doses of the Cuban anticovid vaccines Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala had been administered in the country. Until that same date, a total of 9,888,135 people had already completed their vaccination schedule, which represents 89.3% of the Cuban population.
As of 3/4, 10,613,581 people have received at least one dose of one of the Cuban vaccines SOBERANA 02, SOBERANA Plus and ABDALA. Of these, 9,378,556 already have the 2nd dose and 9,057,424 the 3rd dose.
9,888,135 people have a complete vaccination schedule.
👉https://t.co/BPD3fxJNpl pic.twitter.com/EA5W6Gd0eV— Cuban Ministry of Public Health (@MINSAPCuba) March 6, 2022
This weekend Cuba reached 8,500 deaths from COVID-19, according to official statistics. He did so after the report of a new fatality from the disease by the health authorities.
What’s more, at the close of this saturday 482 new coronavirus infections were also registered, while 458 medical discharges were given. In this way, there are already 1,072,956 patients detected on the island since the start of the pandemic, while the recovered patients amount to 1,062,032, 99% of the total cases.
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