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Abdala, the first Cuban vaccine against covid-19 turns one year old | Society | America Edition

Abdala, the first Cuban and Latin American vaccine against covid-19, celebrates this Saturday the first anniversary of its approval by the local regulatory authority for its emergency use in the mass immunization campaign on the island.

This vaccine -created and manufactured by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB)- has shown an efficacy of 92.28% in clinical trials. In its last phase of testing, 48,000 volunteers aged 19 to 80 participated.

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