In Cuba, the return to school will take place next Monday, but at a distance.

“We know that Cuban families are very worried about the resumption of face-to-face schooling, and it is important to say (…) that on September 6, we will restart the school year, but via televised lessons. Education Minister Ena Elsa Velazquez announced on state television on Tuesday evening.

And "we have decided, in agreement with the Ministry of Health (...), that schoolchildren will resume face-to-face school once vaccinated" against the Coronavirus, she added, indicating that a three-step schedule , from the oldest to the youngest, had been decided.

The island, which has developed its own vaccines, is currently conducting pediatric clinical trials with its Abdala and Soberana vaccines, with the intention of immunizing Cuban children from the age of three.

Very worrying contagion figures

To prevent the spread of the disease, schools across the country have been closed since March 2020 and only reopened briefly, for a few weeks, at the end of the year, before closing again in January. Schoolchildren and students must therefore follow the lessons via television. Cuba, which had succeeded in controlling the epidemic on its territory the first times, has posted very worrying contagion figures since July, the arrival of the delta variant rocking its health system, pride and social pillar of the island. The island of 11.2 million inhabitants has accumulated 652,855 cases including 5,303 deaths.

Under an American embargo since 1962, the country began to develop its own vaccines in the 1980s, which allowed it to produce two vaccines against the coronavirus: Abdala and Soberana.

They are not recognized by the WHO.

But due to the big delay in the vaccination program, with around 30% of the population immunized against a target of 70% at the end of August, Cuba started using Chinese Sinopharm vaccine on Sunday as well.

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