“Más de 1,640,000 dosis de la vacuna Abdala se enviaron desde Cuba a nuestros hermanos de Venezuela, en vuelo de CONVIASA, que despegó de La Habana en la madrugada de hoy”, precisa un mensaje del CIGB en la red social Twitter. El primer lote de Abdala, que se convirtió en el primer inmunógeno anti-Covid-19 desarrollado y producido en América Latina y el Caribe, llegó a Venezuela el pasado mes de junio. Texto Completo-> PrensaLatina

Courtesy translation-> “More than 1,640,000 doses of the Abdala vaccine were sent from Cuba to our brothers in Venezuela, on a CONVIASA flight, which took off early today from Havana,” says a message from the CIGB on the social network Twitter. The first batch of Abdala, which became the first anti-Covid-19 immunogen developed and produced in Latin America and the Caribbean, arrived in Venezuela last June.

Venezuela’s National Academy of Medicine on Monday expressed concern over the use of Cuba’s Abdala coronavirus vaccine due to a lack of scientific research on its safety and efficacy.Cuba said on Saturday it had exported the three-shot vaccine for the first time, sending an initial shipment to Vietnam as part of a contract to supply five million doses to the Southeast Asian country.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/world/venezuelan-academy-medicine-expresses-concern-over-use-cuban-vaccine By Vivian Sequera. Full Text -> Today

Traducción de cortesía -> La Academia Nacional de Medicina de Venezuela expresó el lunes su preocupación por el uso de la vacuna cubana contra el coronavirus Abdala debido a la falta de investigación científica sobre su seguridad y eficacia. Cuba dijo el sábado que había exportado la vacuna de tres inyecciones por primera vez, enviando un envío inicial a Vietnam como parte de un contrato para suministrar cinco millones de dosis al país del sudeste asiático.

Cuba’s Center of Genetic Immunology and Biotechnology also announced that initial shipments of the Abdala shots were sent to Venezuela over the weekend. Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announced in June that Venezuela had agreed to buy $12m worth of the Cuban vaccine, though officials have declined to say how many doses were involved. Full Text-> Aljazeera

El Centro de Inmunología Genética y Biotecnología de Cuba también anunció que los envíos iniciales de las inyecciones de Abdala se enviaron a Venezuela durante el fin de semana. La vicepresidenta de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, anunció en junio que Venezuela había acordado comprar $ 12 millones de la vacuna cubana, aunque las autoridades se han negado a decir cuántas dosis estaban involucradas.

The Caracas College of Nurses and several teachers claimed this Friday that the Cuban vaccine Abdala not be applied to minors in Venezuela, which they consider to be still a “prototype” despite having received their authorization for emergency use by the island authorities. “Children are special subjects of law and, today, in Venezuela, we cannot continue to allow our Venezuelans to become guinea pigs,” said the president of the College of Nurses in Caracas, Ana Rosario Contreras, who led a small protest in front of to the headquarters of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Full Text -> MarketResearchTelecast.

Cuba says it has developed a vaccine against Covid-19 that its ally, Venezuela, has begun administering despite warnings from regional health authorities and Venezuelan doctors that they haven’t seen evidence of the shot’s efficacy or safety. Cuban doctors working in Venezuela are applying the three-dose vaccine called Abdala, with 10,000 people having received the first jab in recent days at a Caracas military base, the first batch from a 12-million-dose contract signed between the two nations. By Kejal Vyas. Full Text-> WallStreetJournal