The Cuban medicine is an antiviral and is used to fight respiratory infections caused by HIV.
A Cuban medicine is used by the Chinese health authorities among the drugs to fight the coronavirus, which was generated in the city of Wuhan last December.
China selected the Cuban antiviral Interferon alpha (IFNrec) to be used in its fight against the coronavirus.
The medicine is produced from the first day of the Lunar New Year at the Chinese-Cuban Changheber plant in Jilin.
Interferon alpha (IFNrec) is applied to fight viral infections caused by Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B and C and respiratory papillomatosis.
La planta chino-cubana #Changheber en #Jilin produce desde el primer día del #AñoNuevoLunar, el Interferon alpha (IFNrec) con el uso de tecnología cubana. La Comisión de Salud #China🇨🇳 ha seleccionado nuestro producto entre los utilizados en la lucha contra #coronavirus.#Cuba🇨🇺 https://t.co/oy5FQjdvI9
— Presidencia Cuba (@PresidenciaCuba) February 6, 2020
The Cuban ambassador to China, Carlos Miguel Pereira, also said that two renowned Cuban doctors arrived at the Asian giant to strengthen the fight against the coronavirus.
The Cuban doctors are the pediatrician infectologist Ileana Álvarez and the clinical-infectologist Rafael Arocha, who moved to the headquarters of the Embassy of Cuba in China.
