Cuban President praizes talent and work of decorated scientists
' The heroes and also their collaborators, fairly recognized with the Lázaro Peña Order. Emotional afternoon of award for talent, dedication, sacrifice, discovery, collective work, immunization of the homeland,' he wrote on the social network.
Díaz-Canel granted the honorary title by means of Presidential Decree number 307, published last September 30 in the Official Gazette of the Republic. Abdala, designed by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), the first vaccine in Latin America, showed 92.28 percent effectiveness in its three-injection plan.
There is also the immunogen of the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV) Soberana 02 which, with two doses, showed 65.6 percent effectiveness in its final analysis of efficacy on symptomatic disease.
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