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The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, ordered this Sunday to resume the reinforced confinement, in force since mid-March to stop the advance of the COVID-19, for a week throughout the country, in the midst of an escalation of infections.
“Let’s all get ready for seven days of truly radical quarantine! ”, Said the socialist leader in a telephone pass broadcast by government television.
Venezuela accumulates 45,868 confirmed cases and 381 deaths by the new coronavirus, according to official figures, in the midst of a contagion acceleration in this country of 30 million people.
The official balance, however, is questioned by the opposition and organizations such as Human rights observer considering that the situation is much worse.
Confinement is “necessary,” Maduro continued, to “continue fighting hard” against the virus and cut the chains of contagion.
The decision to resume isolation for one week is part of a confinement scheme called “7 + 7” in force since June, which alternates seven days of “radical quarantine”, in which all businesses are forced to close except those in sectors prioritized as food or health, with seven of “flexibilization” that allow to reactivate the rest of the activities.
Caracas and most of the country comes from a week of relaxation, while the municipalities bordering Brazil and Colombia were exempted and remained in “radical quarantine” to “shield the country” from Venezuelan migrants who are returning, the vice president said last Sunday. , Delcy Rodríguez.
The socialist government assures that some 90,000 migrants have returned “legally”, while another 40,000 have entered by illegal roads (trails), after being unemployed by the pandemic.
On August 9, Maduro extended the “state of alarm” for the fifth time for 30 days, enabling him to extend the quarantine in force from March 16.
The virus found Venezuela with hyperinflation and six years of recession, a debacle that has caused the exodus of some 5 million migrants since the end of 2015, according to the UN.
The socioeconomic crisis makes it difficult to comply with the confinement in a country where four out of five families do not earn enough money to cover the food basket, according to an academic study.
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