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Will Cuba potentially supply COVID-19 vaccines to other countries?

Tuesday, March 2, 2021
By Lauralei Singsank
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Cuba is currently developing four experimental COVID-19 vaccines. The country is scheduled to deliver one million doses of one version, Soberana 02 (or Sovereign 02 in English) by April. “Cuba is going to be one of the first countries in the world to vaccinate all its inhabitants if not the first,” a health ministry professor wrote in a Jan. 24 letter to the British Medical Association’s medical journal.

As Cuba is a member of PAHO, the regional arm of the World Health Organization, its vaccines could be made available to the other Latin American member states. Cuba is working to develop 100 million doses in 2021, enough to vaccinate its population of 11.3 million and then ship doses to other countries.

Vietnam, Iran and Venezuela are among nations reported interested in acquiring Cuban vaccines.

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