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ALBA-TCP members countries celebrated Monday the XVIII Summit of the regional integration and altnernative trade mechanism, during which strategies to confront the COVID-19 pandemic took center stage.
At the summit, the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro Moros, proposed the creation of a vaccine bank for the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) member countries.
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The President highlighted that the region has the four vaccines currently being developed by Cuba, but also other options in the world.
"There is the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia, we are doing the tests in Venezuela and they are going very well, today they announced that their vaccine achieves 91% of effectiveness and in serious cases 100%, which is important," Maduro stressed.
According to Maduro, during his intervention at the XVIII ALBA-TCP Summit, "the financing of the entire vaccination process of the member countries of this integration block must be guaranteed through the ALBA Bank."
Breaking: President @NicolasMaduro proposes that Cuba and Venezuela create/manage a vaccine bank, coordinated by scientists & medical authorities, to guarantee the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines for ALBA-TCP states. It would include Sputnik V and the Cuban vaccine candidates. pic.twitter.com/Z7g5JTyQnV
— Camila (@camilateleSUR) December 14, 2020
Maduro pointed out that ALBA member countries must work to concretize agreed-upon health and education policies, the strengthening of Petrocaribe, the support for all our peoples and to assume the strategy as "an agenda of a Great Nation."
For his part, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stated that Cuba is developing four vaccination projects against COVID-19 in an accelerated manner.
"Cuban scientists are making every effort to have them available next year," said the Cuban president.
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