Abdala vaccine candidate: 92.28% efficacy in its three doses

June 25, 2021 OnCuba Staff 0

Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB). Photo: Pinterest. The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) announced this Monday in Havana that the Cuban Abdala vaccine candidate has an efficacy of 92.28% with a scheme of three applied doses, according to the clinical studies of the immunogen.   With Read more

Havana: new school year to begin on December 7

December 7, 2020 OnCuba Staff 0

The 2020-2021 school year, underway in almost all of Cuba since the beginning of November, will begin in Havana on December 7, confirmed the deputy director general of education of the Cuban capital. José Ángel Ordaz said to the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency that Havana province is “ready to assume the beginning of Read more

Predictions (II)

September 24, 2020 Rafael Hernández of OnCubaNews 0

It seems obvious that you can’t look ahead without noticing where you are, and what is around you. In the Cuban case, this exploration is equivalent, as Rubén Matínez Villena would say, to an “exercise of brave discipline” to overcome the avalanche of perorations, opinions and counter-opinions that saturate the Read more

Canadian tourists in Cuba test negative for COVID-19

September 14, 2020 OnCuba Staff 0

All Canadian tourists who arrived last Friday at Cayo Coco international airport, in central Cuba, tested negative for COVID-19, according to the island’s authorities. The 110 visitors from Canada, who arrived on the second flight to the Cuban destination Jardines del Rey from the northern country in September, underwent a real-time Read more

Cuban lends hand to detect COVID-19 cases in Venezuela

September 7, 2020 OnCuba Staff 0

With the support of Cuban specialists, the Venezuelan health authorities inaugurated this Saturday a new molecular biology laboratory that will allow analyzing around a thousand daily tests to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a crucial contribution amid the rise in positive cases in the South American nation. With almost 10,000 active Read more