President Maduro: '80% of COVID-19 cases in Venezuela are imported' - MPPRE

President Maduro: ‘80% of COVID-19 cases in Venezuela are imported’

“Practically, 80% of COVID-19 cases in Venezuela are imported,” said President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday, when the number of COVID-19 cases in the country rose to 3,150.

The Venezuelan president explained that health authorities registered 41 cases imported from Colombia and Brazil and that “out of 47 cases, 41 come from the hotspot of Las Pulgas market, in the city of Macaraibo, Zulia State”.

He stressed that Venezuela is the only country that receives thousands of nationals fleeing Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, and in the face of this situation, “the cordon sanitaire implemented by Venezuela is working efficiently, with will, constancy, good leadership, discipline and patience.”

Through the border, hundreds of Venezuelan nationals are returning, and most of them “come with the coronavirus problem;” therefore, they are receiving human, medical care following appropriate protocols.

President Maduro stressed that the preventive and security measures taken by the Venezuelan government have prevented thousands of cases and the expansion of this disease from nations such as Colombia and Brazil.

The Venezuelan president mourned the passing away of another patient, an 80-yer-old man with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. “It’s very painful. We have 27 patients who have died,” he said.

He urged not to let the guard down and think about what is happening in nations like the United States, which registered an outbreak in 20 states “due to the aggressive reopening in all those states.”

About the People’s Republic of China, he said that they detected a hotspot in a large market of Beijing, and based on that, they decreed an emergency and alarm in that city.