In a statement provided to Prensa Latina, MSSC highlighted both the development of several vaccine candidates to face up the present health situation and the number of doctors sent to other nations to fight the pandemic.

‘Cuba´s breakthroughs have succeeded in the development of drugs so useful throughout the world to preserve life and fight Covid-19,’ the text said.

According to the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the US blockade is deemed to be the greatest drawback to domestic development and a violation of human rights.

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