Three others are also in the works. Cuba has a history of effective campaigns without Western help.
Several anti-capitalist countries have expressed interest in receiving the vaccine.
A vaccine developed by the Cuban government is touted to enter Phase 3 trials in March, raising the prospect of the small, communist nation overseeing a homegrown vaccine drive.
The vaccine, Soberana 2, has yet to be formally approved. But Cuba is betting big on its success, which builds on a history of medical programs where the nation has acted alone.
The country aims to be one of the first in the world to vaccinate its entire population of 11 million by the end of 2021, though it will start significantly behind others countries which are already giving out jabs.
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Attack of the mutants: how Britain plans to conquer the new Covid variants
Britain s strategic defence against pandemic pathogens is being built in a field in Oxfordshire – but it will not be ready for a year
16 January 2021 • 8:53pm
Vaccination centre at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow, where up to 5,000 health and social care staff are expected to take part in a mass coronavirus vaccination exercise
Credit: Simon Cassidy/NHS Golden Jubillee/PA
Viruses, it turns out, have something in common with buses. You wait the best part of a year for a new variant to come along and then three or four turn up at once – each a little faster, fitter and stronger than those that went before.
Late last year, polling emerged that revealed some British, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities were less likely to take up a Covid-19 vaccination. The research by Queen Mary University suggests only 39 per cent of BAME Londoners are likely to take the vaccine, compared with 70 per cent of white Londoners. Another poll by the Royal Society for Public Health, conducted at a national level, found those numbers were 57 per cent for BAME people and 79 per cent of white people in the UK. It may at first seem confusing that communities that have disproportionately suffered from Covid-19 and seen a higher rate of deaths are less likely to want to be vaccinated against the virus, but a closer look shows the reasons for both issues are rooted in the UK’s racialised health inequalities. The government is relying on a set of tools that have failed to address these inequalities in other aspects of healthcare, so why would they suddenly work for coronavirus?
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