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Cuba: Abdala Vaccine Begins Trials in 124,000 Havana Workers

  • Cuba tests Abdala vaccine with 124,000 health care workers in Havana.

    Cuba tests Abdala vaccine with 124,000 health care workers in Havana. | Photo: Twitter/@eluniversocom

Published 29 March 2021
Opinion

The Abdala intervention trial, which is in Phase III as a vaccine candidate, will involve some 124,000 volunteers, including healthcare and biopharmaceutical workers.

The second anti-COVID-19 intervention trial in Cuba will begin here today with the Abdala vaccine candidate in some 124,000 volunteers, among them health workers and the biopharmaceutical sector.

Designed by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), this product will be administered to volunteers from 19 to 80 years old, from the AICA Pharmaceutical Laboratories, the National Center for the Production of Laboratory Animals, and the 26th of July Teaching Polyclinic.

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Also included are others from the Immunoassay Center, the Luis Díaz Soto Central Military Hospital, the Center for Medical and Surgical Research, and the Center for Scientific Research, as well as the different headquarters of the Roberto Escudero pharmaceutical laboratories in the Cerro municipality and its dependency in the La Lisa municipality.

The purpose of the controlled intervention trial is to evaluate the direct and indirect effects of vaccination with the candidate designed by the CIGB in population groups at high risk of contracting the infection and other diseases and dispersing the COVID-19 contagion.

This trial seeks to demonstrate the direct and indirect effects on the prevention of symptomatic disease, assess the impact in preventing severe illness, and test the consequences of the injectable on mortality rates from SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen which causes the disease.

Vaccination with Abdala at this stage will consist of three doses and will seek to reduce symptomatic infection among those vaccinated by 60 percent 14 days after the third dose is administered.

Also, it will be tested on whether it reduces severe disease and mortality by 80 percent and by 50 percent the overall burden of incidence in immunized and non-immunized patients with high coverage.

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