Cuba uses new measures for domestic travellers

Ministry of Public Health of Cuba announced a new series of sanitary measures for domestic travellers, which will come into force on July 15 with the intention of containing the spread of coronavirus.

Monday, 12th July 2021

Cuba: Ministry of Public Health of Cuba announced a new series of sanitary measures for domestic travellers, which will come into force on July 15 with the intention of containing the spread of coronavirus.

The Health Ministeries new restrictions will apply to Cubans entering at the airports of the tourist areas of Varadero and Cayo Coco, where they will have to go by mandatory 14-day isolation in hotel facilities. Afterwards, they will be unable to leave the tourism places, Xinhua news agency quoted the Ministry as saying.

Additionally, for Cuban travellers coming at these two airports, luggage restrictions have also been applied, with each passenger allotted a single piece.

The Ministry also set up the mandatory health screening for all airport, transportation and tourism workers upon arrival & departure from their workplaces, as well as the regular performance of antigen tests for those who have greater exposure to the disease.

Cuba's total death toll has increased to 1,490 and total infections to 231,568.

Notably, Cuba said on Thursday its two-shot Soberana 2 Covid-19 vaccine, delivered with a booster called Soberana Plus, had proven 91.2% effective in late-stage clinical trials against the coronavirus, following similar news about its Abdala vaccine.

Cuba has said its homegrown Covid-19 vaccine Soberana 2 (Sovereign 2), when delivered with a booster shot of Soberana Plus, is about 91 percent effective against symptomatic Covid-19 cases as demonstrated in its late-stage clinical trials.

Soon after the results were announced, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked the island nation’s scientists for working on the vaccine. If approved, Cuba will become the first Latin American country to manufacture and produce a vaccine against Covid-19.

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a nation comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and various minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, & Atlantic Ocean meet.