In the last 24 hours of this Sunday, the health authorities of our country have detected 265 new infections of COVID-19, of which 254 cases of community transmission and 11 are imported, while the rate of recovered is located at 95% of the total of cases when registering 99,494 recovered patients.
This was reported by the Sectoral Vice President for Communication, Culture and Tourism, Freddy Ñañez, through a series of publications on his account on the Instagram social network @luchaalmada15
He explained that the cases of community transmission are distributed geographically as follows:
Miranda: 75 new cases
Capital District: 64 new cases
Lara: 26 new cases
Carabobo: 22 new cases
Yaracuy: 15 new cases
Mérida: 10 new cases
Táchira: 9 new cases
Trujillo: 8 new cases
Aragua: 7 new cases
Sucre: 6 new cases
Bolívar: 5 new cases
Nueva Esparta: 5 new cases
Anzoátegui: 1 new case
Barinas: 1 new case
He also detailed that Miranda state is the entity with the highest number of infections in 10 of its 21 municipalities: Lander with 13 cases, El Hatillo with 9 cases, Paz Castillo with 8 cases, Independencia with 8 cases, Sucre with 7 cases, Baruta with 7 cases, Cristóbal Rojas with 7 cases, Guaicaipuro with 6 cases, Carrizal with 3 cases and Chacao with 3 cases.
Likewise, he specified that the 11 imported cases all come from Colombia, with entry through Táchira state, 3 women and 8 men. The also Minister for Communication and Information, reported that to date 2,325,906 tests have been carried out, which represents 77,530 tests per million inhabitants.
He also reported that to date there are 4,029 active cases, of which 4,003 are being treated within the Public Health System and 26 in private clinics.
In the same way, he regretted three new deaths from this virus: a 64-year-old woman from Táchira state, a 30-year-old man from Zulia state and an 88-year-old woman from Mérida state. «Condolences to their relatives and close ones,» he wrote.
Finally, Ñáñez congratulated the National Electoral Council (CNE) for the biosafety measures applied during the voting day on December 6. And to the people for their exercise of responsible citizenship.