- For its proper functioning, it requires the application of three doses two weeks apart.
- The Abdala and Soberana vaccine are the two Cuban options that have been approved by Cofepris.
- So far Mexico has received 250.2 million doses from eight different laboratories.
Despite the fact that Mexico accumulates several months with a decrease in Covid-19 cases, the emergency remains active. In fact, the arrival of the winter season could cause the incidence to increase. For this reason, among the protection options that our country has is the Cuban vaccine Abdala.
In this case, on December 29, 2021 the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) ruled appropriate the authorization for emergency use of this biological. Its official name is recombinant protein of the receptor binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The Cuban Abdala vaccine finally arrives in Mexico
Although since then the doses for its application had not been sent. It took almost a year but finally On the night of this November 25, the first shipment of the Abdala vaccine arrived in Mexico. It consists of four million 092 thousand 500 packaged doses against COVID-19 and will be applied to adults.
At 7:57 p.m., the Hercules plane of the Mexican Air Force arrived at the “Felipe Ángeles” International Airport (AIFA) in Zumpango, State of Mexico, from Havana, Cuba.
Staff from the Biological and Reactive Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex), the National Center for Child and Adolescent Health (Censia) and Cofepris, as well as elements of the Mexican Army, participated in the arrival, transfer and security of the doses. and the National Guard.
All the vaccines that Mexico has received
With the doses that arrived and since the first shipment that arrived in the country on December 23, 2020, Mexico has received 193,231,845 packaged vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, the Gamaleya National Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Research, CanSino Biologics, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Abdala.
Likewise, in Mexican territory, the Drugmex laboratory has packaged 14 million 024 thousand 840 doses of CanSino Biologics, and the Liomont laboratory 42 million 991 thousand 100 AstraZeneca biologicals, making a total of 57 million 015 thousand 940 vaccines packaged in the country. .
In short, since December 23, 2020, Mexico has had 250 million 247 thousand 785 biologicals available.
Efficacy of the Cuban Abdala vaccine
According to what has been observed in clinical trials, the Abdala vaccine is 92.28 percent effective when the three doses it requires are received two weeks apart.
About its formula, it is not vectorial nor does it work through mRNA technology but rather it is protein. This means that it carries a part of the spike protein that the virus uses to attach to human cells. While it binds to the receptors of the virus’s own spike protein, triggering an immune reaction.
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