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More than 400 people from that capital district were inoculated between
Getting vaccinated in such an attractive locale, and with the quality of care offered by the FAC team and health personnel, was a "very positive experience," he added.
A cavernous warehouse with narrow corridors and brick walls decorated with vinyl records, the
Various medical students assist there with the immunization process, recording patients' information, taking their blood pressure before and after the vaccine is administered and then monitoring them for any potential side effects.
More than 3 million people on that
Closed to the public since March due to the pandemic, the
Any type of aid is welcome amid a surge in coronavirus infections on the island, which now is reporting roughly 9,000 confirmed cases and around 100 Covid-19 deaths per day.
For the FAC's team members, supporting the vaccine effort in any way they can is a way of showing their "respect, admiration and infinite gratitude to our doctors and scientists," the institution wrote on Twitter.
That effort has been fully in keeping with the focus on society and community that project led by Cuban musician and visual artist X Alfonso has shown since its inception.
The idea of transforming one area of the FAC into a vaccine center was proposed by local authorities "because they've seen that we always respond in the same way: with logistical - and especially human - support; we're always there for whatever is needed," Alfonso told Efe.
The visual artist also stressed the
"If we don't help one another, who's going to do it?" said the head of that institution, a former cooking-oil factory that was converted six years ago into a laboratory for different types of artistic creation.
Time magazine selected that erstwhile noisy industrial plant as one of the World's Greatest Places of 2019, saying then that the FAC had "quickly become the city's buzzy creative hub," boasting "galleries, performance-art spaces and a dance floor that's home to the capital's most captivating movers and shakers."
And its reputation has been further enhanced by visits from the likes of pop icon
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