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The Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, denounced this Sunday the blockade in several countries of the resources that his government would allocate to acquire a batch of vaccines against covid-19, which has killed more than a thousand people in the South American country.
“The resources to buy the vaccine from Venezuela have been frozen and stolen in England, in Portugal, in Spain, in the United States”said the president during the balance that he offers each week on the fight against covid-19 in the Caribbean nation.
The United States, England, Portugal and Spain are part of the fifty countries that they do not recognize the legitimacy of Maduro as president of Venezuela, since they question the results of the controversial elections of May 2018, in which the socialist leader obtained re-election.
“We have asked (these countries) to give us the money to buy the vaccine, through the World Health Organization, and have refused. So I denounce it ”, added the Venezuelan president.
Despite the complaint, Maduro did not offer details about the amount of the blocked resources or the number of doses that Venezuela would buy with them.
He did reiterate that his government will have in the first quarter of this year at least 10,000,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine, following the signing of a contract with Russia at the beginning of last week.
“The Russian vaccine is not blocked against Venezuela, they do not have it blocked, and we get resources and pay for it with facilities that Russia gave us, that is to be a true friend of Venezuela,” he said.
According to the president, the 10,000,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine they will serve to vaccinate the same number of citizens. Maduro himself said last December that he expected to start an immunization plan next April.
“We have done our best,” he said about the financing of these vaccines, reiterating the blocking of Venezuelan resources in several countries.
Maduro also said today that his government is “Coordinating with Cuba” the possible acquisition of a batch of vaccines against covid-19, despite the fact that this country has not yet completed any of the 4 vaccine candidates that it has in the development phase.
This same day, the Venezuelan opposition that is grouped under the figure of the leader Juan Guaidó, whom more than 50 governments recognize as interim president of Venezuela, pledged to do “All the necessary steps” to acquire vaccines against covid-19 through the COVAX platform, which is made up of about 190 countries.
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