From making its Covid Vaccine to donating poorer countries to help CUBAN is playing a vital role against the pandemic. They have planned to distribute 200 million doses of its home-grown vaccine to lower-income countries.
- They told that they want to reach a ‘historic turning point’.
- A progressive International delegate David Adler said, ‘lifesaving package was an example of vaccine internationalism that saw public health placed above private profit and petty nationalism.
- ‘Cuba has emerged as a powerful source of hope’, he said at an international briefing.
- As the Cuban government announced solidarity prices for Covid-19 vaccines, Mr. Adler spoke of technology transfer, the extension of medical brigades, and a pledge to build medical capacity and training for low-income countries.
- Cuba has vaccinated 90 percent of its population with at least one dose of its vaccine.
- Director of science and innovation at state-run Bio Farm Cuba Rolando Perez Rodriguez, said ‘The proactive and conscious participation of the population has allowed the high level of coverage and the high rate of daily vaccination.’
- ‘This is a consequence of the organization of Cuban society and our socio-economic model,’ he added.
- Cuba has achieved the rollout despite a six-decade US embargo aimed at strangling its economy and overthrowing the government.
- ‘The blockade is real. But the Cuban socialist system can overcome these difficulties in a way that no other country could. And a key to this is the close integration among the institutions of our country,’ said Gerardo Guillen, head of Cuba’s Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.
- Public Health Minister and co-ordinator of Cuba’s national vaccine plan Ileana Morales Suarez said the government was joining calls to eliminate obstacles to vaccine distribution and access.
- ‘We will continue to promote solidarity and co-operation,’ she said.