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World’s first conjugate Covid-19 vaccine
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- Cuba has developed world’s first conjugate Covid-19 vaccine Soberana 2 (Sovereign 2).
- Soberana 2 vaccine is administered in three dose regimens.
- It comprises of two shots of Soberana 2 and one shot of Soberana Plus.
- When the Soberana 2 vaccine is delivered with booster shot of Soberana Plus, it is 91 percent effective against symptomatic Covid-19 cases.
- If this vaccine is approved, Cuba will become first Latin American country to manufacture and produce vaccine against Covid-19.
- Soberana 2 was developed by Finlay Institute in collaboration with Centre for Molecular Immunology and National Biopreparations Centre.
- A conjugate vaccine is a type of vaccine that combines weak antigen with strong antigen as a carrier.
- By doing that an immune system strongly response to a weak antigen.
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