Venezuela manufactures in a state-of-the-art laboratory of Caracas the vaccine of Cuban origin Abdala against covid-19, todavia in the second phase of clinical trials, in cooperation with the Governor of La Habana. The Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, also announced this week that the country has finally agreed to the advance required by the Covax mechanism, supported by the World Health Organization, with the aim of acquiring 11 million corresponding to 20 that Venezuela needs to immunize its population. The other 60 million dollars that are missing for the rest of the vacancies are guaranteed, according to the door of the Executive of Nicolás Maduro.
“We have been accompanied by the Cuban delegation to this plant to verify that all the conditions are in place for the production of the Abdala vaccine in our country,” Rodríguez said in a televised broadcast by Espromed Bio, the state-of-the-art medical laboratory production of vacancies, without detailing an exact figure or the monthly doses that desperately need. The Minister of Health of Venezuela, Carlos Alvarado, commented that an international commission is discussing options to make “adjustments to the plant” that will guide the planned work.
Tanto Rodríguez as Alvarado alabaron the corner between Cuba and Venezuela as an example on the international terrain and affirmation that concretizing this fact is possible the “massive” manufacture of vacancies against the covid. “Venezuela is looking for all the possible alternatives to access to the vacancies, and these are some of the most important options for the mandate relationship we have with Cuba,” said Alvarado. The Minister ensures that the agreements to deal with Sputnik V, Russia, and Sinopharm, China, are vigilant.
These announcements are currently being made while the South American country is announcing the return of the publication of an official evacuation plan, which has been promised for the month of April. Maduro’s governor has denied the allegations in a statement issued Friday stating “Similar, baseless allegations concerning Maduro’s intelligence have been made more than once. In his place he posted about the experimental vacancies of Cuba: the Soberana 02 and the Abdala. The second pandemic in the country has collapsed in health centers. The official figures report more than 172,000 cases and more than 1,700 bankruptcies, although practically all the cases coincide with the fact that the sub-register is at least four times higher. Venezuela currently has 750,000 vacancies. The doses are applied to Maduro, the political-military elite of Gobierno and the medical staff.
The legal aid to finance the Covax mechanism is the result of a complex process of negotiations between a mixed team of representatives of Maduro and Guaidó, which has allowed the unbundling of some national funds condemned by the fair market. Without embarrassment, the Governor of Maduro did not want to appear in public making anything with him, and he was responsible for the Venezuelan opposition and the United States in the return of vacancies and the serious financial insolvency of the country.
The National Academy of Medicine of Venezuela has warned in March that the country “suffers a serious epidemic of covid-19 y, while participating in trials of experimental products with unmistakable characteristics, must prioritize the trade in safety of reconnaissance vehicles. and efficiency ”. The Abdala is one of the four vacancy projects facing the Gobierno of Cuba. The third phase to obtain its patent, which consolidates the clinical studies that underpin its efficiency, will now initiate the formalization of agreements with Venezuela.
“There are no studies published in any of its phases in serious reviews, although the OMS recently accepted the vaccine prototype against covid”, valued Amadeo Leyba, medical specialist in pediatrics and public health. “The Abdala vaccine is a recombinant protein (waxing agent) and uses the tetanic toxoid as a carrier. Dudo that with the chaos in the public health of this moment in Venezuela can be manufactured vacancies massively. We do not need to generate expectations that we do not understand, ”she said.
The Espromed Bio laboratory was created in 2014, at Maduro’s time, as the successor to the Vacuas Plant Producer, written by the National Institute of Hygiene. Its installed capacity is 120 million dose per year.
“The facilities of Espromed Bio were in the past a research center, with no virus, no bacterial processes, with a production or less artisanal of vacancies”, relates Carlos Walter, specialist doctor of the Center for Studies of the Development of the University of Central Venezuela and the Ministry of Health in the coming years. “Find the many resources available at this institute, with Cuban accessory and presence”, gee toe al expresses his reservations about the current state of the Empromed-bio laboratories in the middle of the general query of the public administration alive in the years of Maduro .
Leyba predicts that Gobierno will continue to adhere to the Cuban vacuum, and will have the opportunity to align with the Russian and Chinese summit leaders to orientate his ideology on this topic. “The Cuban caravan impresses the van, in this model of political fanaticism over the raciocinio”, opina. “As olviden the empresarios of that the van to allow vaceras, as he commented. For these leaders, the vacancies will be converted into a power and in the case of Cuba, in model solidarity ”.
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