President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez made Thursday the announcement on Twitter by sharing the report of Granma, the official newspaper of the ruling Communist Party of Cuba.<\/p>\n
The biotech park aims to research, develop, produce and market drugs obtained in the Greater Antilles, with proven efficacy and worldwide recognition, according to the report.<\/p>\n
The Greater Antilles is a grouping of larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands.<\/p>\n
BioCubaFarma and Guangxi Fukang companies will lead the project that will be installed in Fangchenggang, a southern city of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, which Cuban government calls a zone “with prospects of becoming an experimental industrial hub in drug research and procurement for China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.”<\/p>\n
Melangenin, Heberferon, Proctokinase and the therapeutic vaccine against Hepatitis B are among the initial drugs to be produced.<\/p>\n
Cuba has so far registered 1,830 coronavirus infection cases and 79 deaths, according to data from US-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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