The Foreign Ministers of Cuba and Iran.
AFP
On January 1, a small story in the Cuban media was all but overlooked: Cuba and the Pasteur Institute of Iran reached an agreement for the production of an Iranian vaccine against Covid-19. While in Iran the news was delivered by the spokesman of its Organization for Food and Medicines, and then touted with enthusiasm by various official media, including state television, almost all the official media in Cuba preferred to ignore it. Only one local radio station, Radio Bayamo, reported the story.
The Cuban regime has sought to hush-hush the carrying out of clinical trials of the Iranian vaccine in Havana. The second phase of experimentation in humans, according to the brief account from Radio Bayamo, will also be conducted on the island. If the results are good, they will proceed with them in Tehran as well.