Venezuela urges international cooperation to overcome Covid-19 pandemic

The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on Monday urged the countries that make up the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to maintain the greatest cooperation, to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the Virtual Ministerial Meeting of the Celac, where issues around the vaccine against Covid-19 were evaluated, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, specified that it is necessary to cooperate beyond any ideological or political difference, as indicated the Venezuelan Chancellory on the Twitter social network.

In addition, he pointed out the importance of taking into account all the industrial capacities of each country, for the production of a vaccine against coronavirus, and and stressed that this is only achieved through rapprochement between countries.

In the company of the Minister for Health, Carlos Alvarado, Chancellor Arreaza thanked the nations of Mexico and Argentina, for accompanying the initiative to produce the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford against Covid-19 for the whole Latin America, thinking about the health of the peoples, as he reported on the Twitter platform.

The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, celebrated this Sunday the initiative of Argentina and Mexico to produce the vaccine, which would be ready in the first quarter of 2021.

Up to date, there are a total of 5,289,715 people in Latin America who have been infected with coronavirus. Of these territories, Brazil leads with 3,343,925 cases, followed by Peru with 535,946 positives, and then Colombia with 468,332 infected.

Of these figures, have happened 176,416 deaths and 3,827,422 patients have recovered, and 1,285,877 remain active, as reported by www.worldometers.info, a website tracking the pandemic in real time.