As of January the Cuban vaccine Abdala will be used as a booster to vaccination against coronavirus In Venezuela.
The announcement was made by President Nicolás Maduro this Sunday, November 28, by ensuring that the Cuban product “is one of the best booster vaccines in the world.”
This Sunday, when offering his balance on the coronavirus and the regional and municipal elections of November 21, he gave his support to the Cuban vaccine, which receives criticism of the scientific community and academies in Venezuela, in the absence of validation of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the little information for dissemination and peer evaluation, after clinical trials with this biologic.
«In January we are going to start reinforcing vaccines. The national scientific council has already given its recommendations. It has worked very well as a vaccine and later as booster the Abdala vaccine from Cuba; It is one of the best booster vaccines ”, insisted the ruler.
He affirmed that “it works very well in the youth and in the population of children in the country”, although it is known that until now the vaccines for adolescents and children that are being placed in the country are from Sinopharm, a laboratory Chinese.
Venezuela has molnuparivir pills
This Sunday the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology of Cuba, a state institution of biotechnological and pharmaceutical products, reported that it sent a new batch of Abdala vaccines to Venezuela, with more than one million doses.
Maduro also announced that antiviral treatments are found in Venezuelan territory molnuparivir, a pill that in trial studies has been shown to slow the advance of COVID-19 in its severe form.
“We have brought to Venezuela the latest treatment announced in the world, the pill that cuts the coronavirus by a good percentage and saves lives. We have enough doses to treat people sick with coronavirus, “said the president.
New omicron variant
The president said that he activated the national scientific council and the presidential council of COVID-19 to evaluate the appearance of the new variant of the coronavirus, omicron, which was detected in the middle of this week in South Africa and Botswana.
Before the first analyzes that say that it has a lot of mutations and could be more contagious, they will study if new actions are necessary to take.
He reiterated prevention measures such as the use of a mask, physical distancing and frequent hand washing.
“I have activated the presidential council against COVID and the national scientific council to evaluate the reality of the new variant and in Venezuela we take measures in time to defend our people from the new variant that seems to have many mutations.”
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