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JAMAICA | Don't use expired vaccines opposition warns

KINGSTON, Jamaica- April 13, 2021 - Opposition Spokesman on Health and Wellness, Member of Parliament Dr Morais Guy, …

April 13, 2021
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CUBA | Cuban vaccine Soberana Plus protects against Covid-19 reinfection

Havana, Apr 12 (Prensa Latina) A single dose of Cuba's vaccine candidate Soberana Plus can protect people against…

April 12, 2021
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The AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is being manufactured under licence in India | UNICEF/Dhiraj Singh

UN |‘Plausible’ link between AstraZeneca vaccine and rare blood clots, WHO committee says

UNITED NATIONS, April 7, 2021 - The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine could possibly cause rare blood clots in some…

April 7, 2021
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COVID-19 | New CDC cleaning guidelines:GO easy on disinfectants

ATLANTA GA, APRIL 6, 2021 - The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says the…

April 6, 2021
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The Sputnik V vaccine being offloaded at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana

GUYANA | 20K doses of Sputnik V vaccine arrives in Guyana

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 3, 2021 - Guyana’s COVID-19 immunisation campaign has been boosted with the arrival of 20,000…

April 3, 2021
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Health Minister Dr. Chris Tufton and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie.

JAMAICA | Health Minister downplays the importance of COVID-19 Testing

KINGSTON, April 1, 2021 - Despite repeated concern from Opposition Spokesman on Health and Wellness, Dr. Morais Guy…

April 1, 2021
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BARBADOS | Mottley to consider Russian, Chinese, Cuban COVID-19 Vaccines

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 1, 2021 - While the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been the first to be administered to…

April 1, 2021
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Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Ambassador Marcia Gilbert Roberts (centre), and Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to Jamaica, Her Excellency Inés Fors Fernández (left), view the exhibit highlighting diplomatic relations between Jamaica and Cuba over the years, which opened on Monday (December 9) in the Ministry's main lobby, 21 Dominica Drive, New Kingston. Providing details about the display at right is Foreign Service Officer for the Caribbean and Americas, Cleopatra Parkins.

CARICOM | CARICOM member states interested in Cuba's COVID-19 Vaccines

GEORGETOWN, March 31, 2021 - Cuba is the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean developing COVID-19…

April 1, 2021
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Winner of the Most Impactful Research Award at the 2020 staging of the National Health Research Conference and Research Assistant in the Department of Microbiology at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Tiffany Butterfield.

JAMAICA | Antibody Testing Kits Can Detect Past SARS COV 2 Infections – UWI Study

A research team from the University of the West Indies (UWI) has determined that antibody testing kits can…

April 1, 2021
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A doctor shows an empty vial of the experimental Soberana 02 vaccine for COVID-19 being developed at the Molecular Immunity Center during a media tour of the facility’s vaccine production in Havana on Feb. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

CUBA | The scene from Cuba: How it’s getting so much right on COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately harms underprivileged people globally, Cuba’s “people over profit” approach has been saving many…

March 29, 2021
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GUYANA orders US$4 million Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Demerara Waves, March 28, 2021 - President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that Guyana would be…

March 28, 2021
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