{"id":137978,"date":"2021-09-07T11:45:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T11:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=137978"},"modified":"2021-09-07T11:45:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T11:45:44","slug":"cuba-is-worlds-first-country-to-vaccinate-toddlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/cuba-is-worlds-first-country-to-vaccinate-toddlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba is world&apos;s first country to vaccinate TODDLERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cuba is world&#8217;s first country to vaccinate TODDLERS: Children from age of two receive home-grown Covid-19 jabs not recognised by WHO<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Cuba on Monday started vaccinating\u00a0children from the age of two against Covid<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Clinical trials for its home-grown\u00a0Abdala and Soberana jabs found to be safe\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Communist nation is aiming to vaccinate all kids before it reopens schools\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cuban jabs\u00a0have not undergone international, scientific peer review\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cuba on Monday became the first country in the world to vaccinate children from the age of two against Covid-19, using home-grown jabs not recognized by the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>The communist Caribbean island of 11.2 million people aims to inoculate all its children before reopening schools that have been closed for the most part since March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The new school year started on Monday, but from home via television programs, as most Cuban homes do not have internet access.<\/p>\n<p>Having completed clinical trials on minors with its Abdala and Soberana vaccines, Cuba kicked off its inoculation campaign for children on Friday, starting with those 12 and older.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/09\/07\/12\/47604187-9965585-image-a-76_1631013802013.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pedro Montano holds his daughter Roxana Montano, three, while she is being vaccinated against COVID-19 during trials of the Cuban vaccine Soberana Plus, on August 24<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, it started distributing jabs in the 2-11 age group in the central province of Cienfuegos.<\/p>\n<p>Several other countries in the world are vaccinating children from the age of 12, and some are conducting trials in younger kids.<\/p>\n<p>Countries such as China, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela have announced they plan to vaccinate younger children, but Cuba is the first to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Chile on Monday approved the Chinese Sinovac vaccines for children between six and 12.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban vaccines, the first developed in Latin America, have not undergone international, scientific peer review.<\/p>\n<p>They are based on recombinant protein technology &#8212; the same used by the United States&#8217; Novavax and France&#8217;s Sanofi jabs also awaiting WHO approval.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many other shots in use, recombinant vaccines do not require extreme refrigeration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/09\/07\/12\/47604183-9965585-image-a-77_1631013832903.jpg\" height=\"417\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A girl gets a dose of the Cuban made Soberana-02 vaccine for COVID-19 in Havana<\/p>\n<p>The majority of schools in Cuba have been closed since March 2020, reopening for a few weeks at the end of last year before closing again in January.<\/p>\n<p>UN agency UNICEF has called for schools worldwide to reopen as soon as possible, as &#8216;the long-term costs of closures are too high and hard to justify.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Cuba has seen an explosion in coronavirus infections in recent months, putting pressure on its health system.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 5,700 coronavirus deaths recorded since the outbreak started, nearly half were in the last month alone, as were almost a third of all reported cases.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9965585\/Cuba-worlds-country-vaccinate-TODDLERS.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba is world&#8217;s first country to vaccinate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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