Havana: More than 600 personalities signed the letter of scientists from Cuba to date in response to US President Joe Biden for his misleading statements about the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic on the island, Prensa Latina reports.
Available from this Thursday at the address https://www.cienciacubana.cu/es, the letter has the support of doctors, health workers, academics, from the Caribbean country and to which others from the world will join.
The Business Group of the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries of Cuba (BioCubaFarma) announced on its official Twitter account said site from which people can support the statements of the scientists of this nation.
On July 15, US President Joe Biden publicly referred to Cuba as a ‘failed state’ and disqualified the ability of the island, its health and science system to respond to the challenges of the current epidemiological situation. by Covid-19.
Faced with this misinformed pronouncement and aimed at distorting reality, a wide representation of scientists, doctors and the Cuban and international population will address the letter in which the achievements of the Antillean nation in health issues and specifically in the face of the pandemic are described.
The text highlights that immunization has been part of the public health system of this country since 1962 (with the creation of the National Immunization Program), which guarantees free and universal vaccination of the people, regardless of socioeconomic, political, religious status, gender or race.
In this way, since 1999 all Cubans have been protected against 13 life-threatening diseases, including diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, and eight of these vaccines are manufactured in the national territory.
As a result of high immunization rates, not a single case of measles has been recorded in recent decades.
Added to this is the immunization process throughout the national territory against Covid-19 with its own vaccine proposals; in which a total of 11 million thousand 829 doses of the Sovereign 02 and Sovereign PLUS candidates; as well as the Abdala vaccine (first in Latin America and the Caribbean), they have been administered until August 10.
Cuba maintains close collaboration on these issues with the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, international organizations that have confirmed child vaccination rates in this country, which exceed 99 percent coverage.
Precisely, none of these organizations has suggested the need to intervene in the Caribbean nation to administer vaccines, as the United States Government has recently done.
Rather, they have enlisted the help of Cuban experts in global efforts to eliminate diseases such as polio or to urgently export national meningitis vaccines to Africa.
The letter addressed to President Joe Biden calls for lifting the sanctions and coercive measures imposed on Cuba by the governments of the United States, for respecting the achievements of this Caribbean nation and for greater collaboration between these countries to face the pandemic.