Due to its 92 percent efficiency and similarity to vaccines given here, Cuba’s native Abdala vaccine against Covid-19 can be used as a booster shot or initial dose in Mexico, a senior official said on Thursday.
Such information was made public by Eduardo Clark, general director of Mexico City’s Digital Agency for Public Innovation, after he announced that 400,000 people would receive the Cuban vaccine the following week.
According to this specialist, it can be used in new immunisation regimens as well as a universal booster shot (one dosage) (three doses).
After 400,000 doses of the vaccine had arrived in this city, he continued, Abdala will be administered in the new vaccination campaign. He also noted that the vaccine had been licenced by the Federal Committee for Protection against Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS in Spanish) exactly one year prior.
He disclosed that the four million doses of the Cuban-made vaccine would be administered for the first time in this city and the rest of the nation.
In addition to antigens and any imported or domestically made drugs, all vaccines, including Abdala, must be categorised. COFEPRIS endorses all harmful medications, he claimed.
The Abdala vaccine data was given to COFEPRIS a year ago, according to Clark, so this is nothing new.
