The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, calls on the communities to report people who enter the country through the trails, in order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus:
“Let’s not accept in our houses people who have broken in through the trails and who have circumvented the sanitary controls. I make a call on you (…) I ask for your collaboration, it is quite a lot what we are doing, for a group of irresponsible people to come in like that. I ask for your help. Let’s go find them. Do call the authorities to find them and run the tests on them”, emphasized the Venezuelan head of state.
In statements broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión, the National President emphasized the need to exercise maximum coordination and leadership in the border states, especially in Zulia state, where a source of contagion was registered in the Las Pulgas Market:
“Zulia has been a victim of the contagion of coronavirus that came from Colombia. It is a type of coronavirus that is being studied because it is brutal, it has already killed several of our compatriots”, stressed the Venezuelan president during a work meeting held at the Aquiles Nazoa House in Caracas.
In this sense, he denounced that many people – in order to avoid the sanitary cords and carry out the obligatory quarantine – have paid approximately $ 100 each to be entered into the country through the trails, which generates an alert, due to the fact that this way it is not being detected who is infected or not by the virus.
“We have serious cases in Zulia state and in the western region of the country, of people who paid $100 to be passed in through a trail. In the southern region we have serious cases”, said President Nicolás Maduro.
Last Thursday, the Venezuelan president reported on the arrest of 15 people who tried to enter the country through the trails.
He noted that a contagion outbreak was generated by this situation in the Pemón community in Bolívar state, which registers approximately 13 people infected by the outbreak.
It should be noted that more than 55,000 Venezuelans have returned to the country, fleeing from xenophobia and the health crisis that is registered in other nations, as a result of the pandemic, which has generated an exponential increase in imported cases in the last month.
In view of this situation, the National Government deployed an epidemiological fence on the border, where all the Venezuelans who enter are carried out – free of charge – screening tests for the detection of the coronavirus, as well as being isolated and subject to mandatory quarantine for a period of 14 days.
