(CNN Español) – The official figures of the Venezuelan governor state that as of March 17, the country has summed up 1,459 deaths by covid-19.
In addition, the official balance sheet of the state of Tachira on March 8 indicates that, in this frontier jurisdiction with Colombia and that includes the municipality of San Cristóbal, the deaths due to the new coronavirus eran 139.
Without embargo, the Al Cristal of San Cristóbal, Gustavo Delgado, said that, according to its official figures, only in this municipality a total of 849 victims of the report since the state of emergency was declared on March 13, 2020.
It represents 58.19% of the total number of deaths in the national budget and 6.10 times more than the number of deaths reflected in the regional report. According to statistics from 2015, San Cristóbal tenders a population close to 283,000 inhabitants, while Táchira reached 1.2 million and Venezuela’s 28.5 million.
Gustavo Delgado, a member of the opposition party Copei, explained that the Civil Registry, which guarantees the entry and enforcement of deeds of action in San Cristóbal, finds its responsibility, so that it can confirm that the dates are in the books. ‘We do not have any inconveniences that have been revised. What we are talking about is clear to the people, ”he said.
Delgado claims that 849 deaths were dealt with by Covid-19 in homes or hospitals. “No quarrel in controversy with respect to the figures because he’s gone nowhere,” he said.
Vacation against the covid-19 in Venezuela. (Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria / Getty Images)
The municipal official ensures that the municipal cement only provides 25% of the living space, which is being worked on in a project for the construction of a new one.
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At present no denunciations of this type have been produced in other municipal municipalities.
In the 2017 municipal elections, the opposition decided not to participate in considering that fraud in regional elections and only some political leaders are leading the local contest, by which the official party won 71.31% of municipalities.
CNN is communicating with the Ministry of Communications and Information, the Ministry of Health and the Vice-Presidency of Venezuela to announce its reaction to the figures given by the Alcalde of San Cristóbal and the reason for the discrepancies, until now we have received them.
Opposition leader Juan Guaidó has denounced that there is a subregister in the numbers of deaths and deaths by covid-19 in the country and that the “death tolls committed by the governor have no credibility” can be judged by those responsible for a system of health in crisis and at the same time quieren occult the world about the impact of covid-19 in the country.
For its part, the Academy of Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Venezuela has come alert about the limitations of the Venezuelan health system to process PCR tests and diagnose the coronovirus of the form.
With this position val saam met Patricia Valenzuela, who integrates the directive of the Venezuelan Society of Infectology, which states that everything is concentrated in the National Institute of Hygiene which, in its juice, does not have the capacity to process all the tests that read of all the country. Consider that the laboratory privados también processes may allow las pruebas.
In the last few months, some private services have been available for the antigen, but it is not clear if there is a balance sheet for the results of the Health Ministry.
In communication with CNN, at least the laboratories will ensure that the maneuver of the data is not shared with the governor. CNN intends to communicate with the National Institute of Hygiene to announce its response to this issue.