Daily Current Affairs / Cuba becomes the first country in the world to start vaccinating children
Category : International Published on: September 11 2021
· Cuba became the first country in the world to vaccinate children against COVID-19 from the age of two, using home jabs not recognized by the World Health Organization.
· The Communist island's 11.2 million people aim to vaccinate all their children before reopening schools that have been closed for the most part since March 2020.
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