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Doses of Cuba Abdala vaccine are seen at a vaccination center in Caracas, Venezuela July 1, 2021. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero/File Photo
HAVANA, July 28 (Reuters) - Iran will next week become the first country outside of Cuba to start producing one of the Communist-run island s homegrown COVID-19 vaccines on an industrial scale, Cuban state-run media said on Wednesday.
The allies are under fierce U.S. sanctions that they say have long encumbered access to medicines and medical inputs, motivating them to be self reliant. Both have produced a raft of experimental COVID-19 vaccines, some with patriotic names like Cuba s Soberana 2 - or Sovereign 2.
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Vaccines highlight differences between capitalism and socialism
By Joshua Hanks posted on April 12, 2021
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear which countries had effective responses to the spread of the virus, and which did not.
Under capitalism limited supplies despite clear need.
Wuhan, China, underwent a strict lockdown for 76 days, successfully bringing the virus under control in the world’s first city to identify an outbreak. The rest of China also controlled the virus, preventing potentially millions of deaths had they allowed it to spread at the same horrific scale as did Britain, Belgium, Italy and the U.S.