More than four million doses of Cuban Abdala vaccine arrived in Mexico
More than four million doses of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine Abdala were delivered to the Mexican Health Secretariat, after the arrival of a first batch to that country on Friday. The vaccine will be used in the ongoing immunization of the adult population, informed the BioCubaFarma Business Group.

Author: Liz Conde Sánchez | internet@granma.cu

december 8, 2022 07:12:25





More than four million doses of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine Abdala were delivered to the Mexican Health Secretariat, after the arrival of a first batch to that country on Friday. The vaccine will be used in the ongoing immunization of the adult population, informed the BioCubaFarma Business Group.

Regarding this important event, Jorge Luis Perdomo Di Lella, Cuba’s deputy prime minister, highlighted in his Twitter account that the arrival of these vaccines in Mexico strengthens the collaboration between Cuba and that sister country in the biopharmaceutical sector.

According to a report by El Financiero, shared by Perdomo Di Lella, the shipment consists of 4,092,500 doses that will be applied to adults, as reported by the Ministry of Health. The package landed at Felipe Angeles International Airport, transported by a Mexican Air Force plane.

The arrival of these doses comes almost a year after the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS) approved their emergency use, on December 29, 2021.

With this new shipment, Mexico is close to 200 million doses of anti-COVID vaccines received. With the shipment from Havana, the figure is 193,231,845 vaccines, the report highlighted.

During Phase III clinical trials carried out in Cuba, Abdala showed an efficacy of 92.28 % against symptomatic disease, with a three-dose schedule, and 100 % efficiency against severe forms and death.

Translated by ESTI