Cuba announces a new coronavirus drug that has already cured 1.500 people.
Produced in a Chinese factory, a drug studied and developed by Cuba against the novel coronavirus underwent a battery of tests and cured 1.500 people.
247 - Cuba, the country responsible for the world's first lung cancer immunization, is now helping China fight the coronavirus with 'Interferon alpha 2B' (IFNrec), a drug that has been produced since January 25 at the Chinese factory Chang-Heber, located in the city of Changchun, Jilin province.
The drug is already being used in China and has cured a total of 1.500 people, according to a report by [source name missing]. Newspapers in Brazilwith information from Luiz Muller's blog and Cuban site Colarebo.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel celebrated the use of the immunization method the day before, saying: "Our support to the Chinese government and people in their efforts to combat the coronavirus."
Despite all the economic embargoes imposed by the US against Cuba, the studies developed on the Caribbean island have received international recognition. In 2015, for example, the World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledged the ability of Cuban medicine to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding.