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Cuba’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate could be boon to Caribbean - Stabroek News

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On Friday 22nd January 2021, I had the honour and privilege of being a member of the welcoming party that was on hand at the Grantley Adams International Airport to welcome to Barbados a team of some 15 Cuban doctors and laboratory specialists that had made its way to Barbados on an Air Antilles charter flight, in order to bolster the human and technical resources available to our country in its herculean fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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