Yarissel Mena Ojeda will go down in the history of Isla de la Juventud as the first pine tree that put her arm in trust that the vaccine candidate Abdala -in addition to immunizing her- is Cuba, Fidel, Revolution.
I cried with emotion when I received the immunogen, the head of the comprehensive rehabilitation service of the Leonilda Tamayo Matos polyclinic and one of the 3,909 workers to date with the first dose, out of a total of four, told the Cuban News Agency 4 202 considered at risk or vulnerable.
Mena Ojeda is in charge of one of the 33 clinical sites for immunization of the population, which will be open to locals over 19 years of age from 8:00 in the morning to 6:00 in the afternoon this week, a process organized by clinics of family doctor and nurse.
So far, discipline has been appreciated and although the territory has not reported new positive cases confirmed for SARS CoV-2, the pandemic virus, for 26 days, it is working in accordance with the biosafety protocol and observance of the flow chart for health intervention, he said.
Israel Velázquez Batista, municipal director of Public Health, reported that today 6,700 people - after signing the consent - are given the aforementioned vaccine candidate, one of the five under study against COVID-19 and of the two in phase III clinical trial in Cuba.
The universe that was decided for the special municipality is 48 thousand 664 inhabitants and the conditions are created in all the popular councils to successfully assume the health intervention, which has the participation of workers and students from the health sector, as well as community actors, he pointed out.
He emphasized the rigor that must accompany this vaccine candidate accreditation process, so compliance with a group of principles is inviolable for science.
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