Venezuela reiterates call to the UN to control expansion of Brazilian variant of COVID-19 in the region - MPPRE

Venezuela reiterates call to the UN to control expansion of Brazilian variant of COVID-19 in the region

The People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations, Jorge Arreaza, reiterated on Tuesday the call to the United Nations (UN) to intervene and make the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil take control over the health crisis facing its country due to COVID-19, and thus prevent the coronavirus from continuing to dangerously spread throughout the region.

“Brazil today registers a new record of daily deaths due to COVID-19. Four days ago we ratified to the Secretary General of the UN what we alerted him 9 months before: the UN must intervene so that the Government of Brazil assumes and controls the tragedy and thus protects all of South America”, wrote the Venezuelan Foreign Minister in official seat in Twitter @jaarreaza.

In a letter sent to the multilateral organization, in recent days, the Venezuelan Government warns that the alarming epidemiological dynamics in the Federative Republic of Brazil, as a result of the criminal negligence of its Head of State and Government, Jair Bolsonaro, represents a latent threat to all of South America.

The letter also refers to the statement of the director of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom, who spoke out about the seriousness of the situation.

“The situation is very serious and we are very concerned (…) The concern does not revolve only around Brazil, but also around Brazil’s neighbors, it is almost Latin America as a whole (…) The Brazilian government must take this into account very very seriously”, said the Director.

Today Brazil adds 48 consecutive days with an average of more than a thousand daily deaths due to the pandemic. After a new, more contagious strain of COVID-19 was found in the neighboring country, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an emergency for all of Latin America.

The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, reported last Wednesday that the first 10 cases of the Brazilian variant of COVID-19 had been registered in the country.