Cuba guarantees production of COVID-19 drugs

The Cuban pharmaceutical industry guaranteed the production of the 22 drugs used for the treatment of the COVID-19, especially Interferon Alpha 2B, which has proven to be very effective in fighting the disease.
Monday, 16 March 2020 20:17

The drug Interferon Alpha 2B and other 22 drugs which have been effective during treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic are produced with Cuban technology at the Changchun Heber Biological Technology joint venture, located in Jilin, China.

The Director of BioCubaFarma Eduardo Martinez Diaz said, “We currently have requests from a large number of countries, which we are responding to because we have sufficient capacity, without putting at risk the amounts required by the country."

It is currently used in vulnerable and health care personnel as a preventive measure, as well as in patients with COVID-19.

As reported by Telesur, “We have in inventory the product that would be equivalent, practically, to the amount necessary to treat the total of all the infected that occurred in China,” CIGB Director-General  Eulogio Pimentel Vazquez affirmed. 

The sources also reported today that Cuba will allow a British cruise ship stranded in the Caribbean to dock with at least five cases of Covid-19 on board, after multiple countries in the region denied assistance.