translated from Spanish: Cuban Covid-19 vaccine demonstrates 100% efficacy

Iran.- After carrying out the clinical trials of the vaccine against Covid-19 Sovereign 02, developed in Cuba, in Iran, it was announced that the antigen presented a 100% efficacy against the most serious cases of the SARS-CoV-2.De according to what was revealed by the director of the Pasteur Institute, Alireza Biglarí, to IRNA, when applying the two doses of the vaccine against Cuban coronavirus and In addition, the booster dose, called Sovereign Plus, demonstrated an efficacy of 91.2%, with “a 100% operability in severe cases and deaths”. It should be noted that, at the moment, Iran is going through its fifth increase in the health contingency, in addition to being affected, in the majority, by the Delta variant, originating in India, which has proven to have a high transmission capacity. Read more: Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, was tortured and quartered before being shot dead That nation’s Health Minister, Saíd Namakí, made it public knowledge on June 29 that Iran had issued the request for the emergency use of Sovereign 02 of the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV), for which the country has collaborated in clinical trials , in addition to being produced locally by the Pasteur Institute. For his part, the Deputy Minister of Health for Hygiene Affairs, Ali Reza Raisí, reproached that the population of Iran has relaxed the security measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19, while warning that if the protocols are not complied with, at least 85%, the actions taken will not be really effective. Read more: Chile accuses 43-year-old woman who introduced Delta variant to the country after traveling to usaFinished noting that the vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2 in Iran is going very slowly, this due to the few doses that the nation has received from abroad, especially from Sputnik V, Sinopharm and AstraZeneca.Just over 6 million 700 thousand Iranians have received at least one dose of the biological , mostly health personnel and over 70 years of age, from a population that exceeds 80 million inhabitants. So far in the pandemic, 3 million 355 thousand 786 Iranians have been infected with Covid-19 of those, more than 3 million have managed to overcome the disease, and 85 thousand 694 have died, according to the figures of the Ministry of Health of that country.



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