Cuba begins vaccinating children as young as two for Covid-19

Cuba has mostly focused connected processing its ain vaccines, alternatively than beryllium connected different countries for the medications. Local scientists accidental the Cuban-made vaccines are harmless and effective, but truthful acold person provided small information to extracurricular observers. The authorities has said it volition question WHO support for its vaccines.

To date, according to the Cuban Health Ministry, implicit 4 cardinal radical person been afloat vaccinated. The authorities has not said however galore children person been vaccinated but said a pediatric vaccination run began this week successful the state of Cienfuegos, wherever the healthcare strategy has faced dire shortages with a steep summation successful caller cases and deaths.

The Cuban authorities besides said it hoped to vaccinate implicit 90 percent of the colonisation of 11.2 cardinal radical earlier reopening planetary borders successful mid-November.

Initially the authorities said it would absorption connected vaccinating wellness attraction workers, the aged and the hardest deed areas. But pursuing a spike successful infections of children believed to beryllium caused by the Delta variant, the authorities announced it would besides prioritize vaccinating young children.

"With the emergence successful affirmative cases of Covid-19 successful children, its indispensable that the household protects itself much and truthful we are protecting our children and adolescents," said the island's main epidemiologist Dr. Francisco Duran Garcia.

To date, Cuba has recorded 6,056 deaths to the coronavirus but officials precocious admitted the toll could beryllium acold higher.