{"id":3676,"date":"2021-02-04T23:15:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2021-02-04T23:17:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:17:44","slug":"cuba-aims-to-immunise-its-entire-population-with-its-own-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-aims-to-immunise-its-entire-population-with-its-own-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba aims to immunise it&#8217;s entire population with its own Vaccine."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuba aims to immunise its citizens this year with a domestic Covid-19  vaccine\u200b, which is one of the few in the world to be developed without the involvement of big multinational pharma firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rq5mWjnPCGY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba aims to immunise its citizens this year with a domestic Covid-19 vaccine\u200b, which is one of the few in the world to be developed<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-aims-to-immunise-its-entire-population-with-its-own-vaccine\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":3677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3992,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cubas-vaccine-revolution-the-island-of-freedom-developing-whopping-five-anti-covid-jabs\/","url_meta":{"origin":3676,"position":0},"title":"Cuba&#8217;s Vaccine Revolution: The Island of Freedom Developing Whopping Five Anti-COVID Jabs","author":"Editorial Team","date":"March 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"While the EU is struggling to stockpile enough anti-COVID jabs, Cuba, a small Caribbean island nation surviving a decades-long US trade embargo, kicked off Phase 3 testing of its own vaccine coronavirus candidates, Soberana 02 and Abdala, earlier this month. 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