Venezuela has an accelerated increase in covid-19 contagios. The country has begun to re-establish the higher levels of the time of the quarantine, registered in August. Public and specialized hospital centers are within their capacity. To contain the situation, the Governor of Nicolás Maduro has decreed a sanitary work on Caracas and the States of Miranda, Vargas and Bolívar, and has provided new spaces that will allow a high level of patient care, such as the Police of Caracas, the court Massive concessions and major exhibitions of the city.
Maduro, who had been evacuated as well as all the Gobierno officials, had declared new Venezuela “in emergence” and established with the priority of “disarming new hospital facilities”.
The official figures heropen 146,000 cases of covid 19 and 1,400 bankruptcies. The register of some medical calculators and plant officials that the number of contagious is five times superior. El Gobierno does not have the media to make sure it is proven, because he claims to be an independent physician. The circulation of diary contagios, agreed with the epidemiologist José Félix Oletta, is 2,500 people. In spite of a precarious and corrupt health care system over corruption, the Gobierno is working to make available new hospital beds.
For the experts consulted by EL PAÍS, the actual increase in cases is an inevitable consequence of the official decision to decree the opening of activities in the Christmas parties before the replica of the virus observed has been heard. In December, for the first time in several months, the population could be displaced without restrictions or for family visits.
Venezuela is subject to the Brazilian variant of the virus, a more contagious mutation. “In one month, this variant will have full transmission activity in our country and our capacity for evacuation will be able to guarantee the rehabilitation of the child,” said Rafael Orihuela, medical expert in public health and member of the Institute of Medicine at the Institute of Medicine. of Venezuela. Data from the Ministry of Science and Technology report currently 56 cases of this variant, all cases in the States where the epidemiological circle has been decreed.
“We are entering the second hour of contagios. With all clarity, the capacity of the assistance centers is at the point of being rebuilt, there are many patients looking for hospital beds. Quisiéramos poder atenderlos a todos, pero es impossible ”, relates María Eugenia Landaeta, head of the Department of Infectology at the University Hospital of Caracas. “The oxygen concentrators and bombs, as well as the anticoagulants, are present in Caracas at this time. The health centers have copied the rapidly declining rate, ”said the health epidemiologist and Minister of Health, José Félix Oletta
Luego de pasar tres meses bajo cuarentena, a delir de julio del año pasade los de Venezolanos organizeron su vida en function de system “7×7” decretado par Maduro: una semana con el commercie la la mobility restrictida seguida de otra con normalz activities. The actual explosion of contagios, observes Oletta, maintains a relationship with the general relationship in the norms of these last weeks. Salvo the routes to Margarita Island at carnivals, in Venezuela follow the majority of domestic commercial flights.
Maduro has announced a massive phase of vacations for the month of April. His ministers have stated that they hope to reach 70% of the vacant population by the end of 2021, as many experts say. In the country he has built a 700,000 Russian and Chinese vacancies that are being applied with opaque criteria and with a clear political filter. Oletta claims that he has covered 0.5% of the population. The length of the evacuation process, recorded by Rafael Orihuela, will free up the terrain for virus mutations.
Caracas know a AstraZeneca
The possibility of preventing the epidemic in Venezuela has been complicated by the official veto on AstraZeneca’s vaccine. The South American country is following the steps of European countries such as Denmark, France and Spain that it has temporarily suspended the vaccine for 11 cases of cerebral venous thrombosis while administering more than 17 million inoculations. The Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, stated: “Venezuela does not have permission from the AstraZeneca vaccine to be used in our munitions in the circumstances in which it is presented”.
In February, the Pan-American Health Organization (OPS) announced that it had reserved for Venezuela between 1.4 and 2.4 million doses of the vaccine developed by Oxford in AstraZeneca, under the Covax mechanism. The OPS has access to other manufacturers with the power to include the 12 million doses and the power to supply Venezuela.
There is a need for political agreement between Nicolás Maduro’s Governor and the team of opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who control foreign funds in the country with which Venezuela can pay for the products. A total of 18 million dollars will allow you to insure the debt of more vacancies, which is hoped for in Mayo. Three weeks ago, the creation of a Mesa Technique was agreed upon to trace the Unicef and OPS evacuation plan. The last week is a week for the masters. Venezuela needs 40 million doses to increase the population of 70% of its population.
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