Vaccination begins for children from two to 11 years old in the Antonio Maceo neighborhood in Havana. photo: Abel Padrón Padilla/ Cubadebate.

Vaccination begins for children from two to 11 years old in the Antonio Maceo neighborhood in Havana. photo: Abel Padrón Padilla/ Cubadebate.

Havana, Sep 20 (RHC) Vaccination in Cuba against Covid-19 is unstoppable, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez reaffirmed on Monday, stressing that "the need to achieve sovereignty in all areas has never been more evident".

Data published by the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) indicate that by the end of September 18, a total of 18,126,208 doses of the Cuban vaccines Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala had been administered in the country.

To date, according to the note, 8,200,250 people have received at least one dose of one of the Cuban vaccines, of which 5,406,727 have already received a second dose and 4,507,757 a third dose. As a single dose of the Soberana Plus vaccine, 11 474 doses have been administered.

Total doses administered during:

Mass vaccination: 7 937 806.

Health intervention: 9 586 527

Intervention study: 452 511

Clinical trials: 149 364 (this figure excludes placebo doses administered during clinical trials)