By: Randy Alonso Falcón
June 14, 2021 Cubadebate
The total number of Cubans who have already received at least one dose of our vaccine candidates against COVID-19 is, at the end of June 11, 2021, 1,930,901 people, according to the official MINSAP report.
That means that 17.3% of the 11,181,595 Cubans (taking as a reference the population estimated by the ONEI at the end of 2020), have received at least one anticovid puncture.
The world average with a dose for the same date was 12.5% of the world population. But with rates of only 0.8% of the population in low-income countries with at least one dose, according to data from the renowned Oxford University site Our World in Data.
But, while in Canada 64.1% of the population has received at least one dose, in Benin it is only 0.18%
More than half a million Cubans with a complete vaccination scheme
Cuba already reports more than half a million of its citizens with the complete anti-COVID-19 vaccination scheme. That represents that 4.5% of the total population has already been immunized.
By the same date, 6.36% of the world’s population had been fully immunized.
Furthermore, as can be seen in the graph of Our World in Data, the growth of the percentage of Cuba’s fully vaccinated population is manifesting itself at a faster rate than the world average, although Cuba begins to appear in the registry several months later.
More than 3.4 million doses administered
With the same closing of June 11, Cuba has already administered 3,419,657 doses of its vaccine candidates, without serious adverse reactions in its population.
That means a rate of 28.9 doses per 100 inhabitants, when the world average is slightly higher than 29.5. Here too, the exponential growth of Cuba in recent days is more pronounced than that of the world.
Milestones of Cuban Vaccine Candidates in Phase III
• On Monday, March 8, 2021, the phase III clinical trial of the vaccine candidate Soberana 02 began in Havana. Some 44,010 citizens participated as volunteers.
• On March 22, phase III of the clinical trial of the vaccine candidate Abdala began in Santiago de Cuba, Granma and Guantánamo, with the participation of 48 thousand citizens.
• That same day, the first phase of the intervention study with Soberana 02 and Abdala began in Havana in some 70 thousand health workers and Biocubafarma.
• On April 1, an intervention study with Abdala in health and science personnel began in Santiago, Guantánamo and Granma.
• • On April 19, 2021, the second phase of the intervention study began in Havana with more than 70 thousand people from sectors with a high risk of contagion, disease and spread of the pandemic, exposed in real situations of community transmission .
• • By that day, 16,862 of the more than 44,000 participants in the Soberana 02 clinical trial had received the first two doses.
• • On May 12, a Sanitary Intervention in Territories and Risk Groups began, authorized by MINSAP, in the country with Cuban vaccine candidates. The beginning of this stage took place in the Havana municipalities of San Miguel del Padrón, Habana del Este, Regla and Guanabacoa.
• • On May 20, at the Round Table, it was announced that the country had already exceeded one million administered doses of Cuban vaccine candidates, with 1,115,335. This figure already included the doses provided in the clinical trials of Soberna 02 and Abdala (without the placebos), those of the intervention studies and the first ones already administered in the health intervention in the country.
• • On May 31, the Ministry of Public Health announced that the two million doses administered by Cuban vaccine candidates had been exceeded, with an accumulated in the country two million 037 thousand 745 inoculations.
• • At the end of June 8, 3,016,266 administered doses of Cuban vaccine candidates had accumulated in the country.
• • On June 10, CECMED publishes the approval for the start of the Phase I / II Clinical Trial with the vaccine candidate Soberana 02 in the pediatric population.
What Havana is showing
• • On May 14, 2021, two days after the Sanitary Intervention began in 4 municipalities of Havana, the capital of the country reported 784 positives to COVID-19.
• • At the end of June 12, a month after the Sanitary Intervention began, Havana reported 422 cases (362 cases less than on May 14), despite the fact that that day the country, unfortunately, had the record of positives for a day with 1,470 cases
Comparison of the number of positives in the 4 municipalities that began the health intervention on May 12:
• Municipality May 14 June 12
• • Guanabacoa 65 31
• • San Miguel del Padrón 64 29
• • East Havana 52 19
• • Regla 13 10
It is not at all the situation to which we aspire and we need to control the disease. But the data are showing a priori the effectiveness of the vaccination path. Let’s wait for the desired efficacy results of our vaccines, to continue towards the goal of fully immunizing the Cuban population before the end of 2021.
