The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, alerted on Tuesday about a bioterrorist plan to increase positive cases of Covid-19 coronavirus on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.
The head of state reported that many Venezuelans who entered through the border have indicated that they were healthy and did not had contact with any other persons but with their own families.
“In these primary investigations that have been carried out with infected Venezuelans, they tell us that from one moment to the other they began to be moved in buses, from one moment to the next. They left the cities of Bogotá, Cali, Medellín healthy, they only had contact with their families, and they presume that they were contaminated on these buses”, said the National President from Fort Tiuna in Caracas.
The Venezuelans – as detailed the Venezuelan president – pointed out that these buses appeared after they had been waiting for days, buses and resources appeared to take them to the (Colombian) border with Apure, Táchira, Zulia states.
“We are now verifying that there is a new ingredient, that is the evil of infecting Venezuelans. It is under investigation”, stressed President Nicolás Maduro.
In the last 24 hours, Venezuela confirmed 75 new positive cases for coronavirus, bringing the number of infected by the outbreak to 824.
Of the 75 confirmed this Wednesday, 67 cases are imported cases.
Given the high appearance of cases on the border, the National Executive has decreed a curfew in different municipalities of border states Zulia, Bolívar, Apure and Táchira.
Likewise, the epidemiological fence in border areas was reinforced, as well as instructions for all Venezuelans who enter the country to remain for 14 days at the border zone and carry out a mandatory quarantine in there.
For this, the Venezuelan head of state ordered the beds and care centers on the border to be multiplied in order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus.
