Fight against COVID-19: Venezuela registers 315 new infections and prepares for mutated virus that may arrive from Colombia

Venezuela detected this Tuesday, December 22, 315 new cases of COVID-19 contagion, of which 13 were imported, which represent a slight but significant increase in the statistics recorded by the Presidential Commission for the Control and Prevention of Coronavirus, and an alert is being pre-configured to prevent the entry into the country of a new mutation that emerged in the United Kingdom, whose strain has already spread throughout Europe and could threaten Venezuelans from Colombia.

That virus from the United Kingdom has not reached Venezuela and we are going to do everything possible so that it does not enter, but there are cases in Colombia and the mutated virus from the United Kingdom can enter from Colombian territory. We are getting ourselves prepared,” informed the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro Moros, offering data from the daily report on the fight against the viral pandemic that causes the COVID-19 disease.

He warned of the mutation of the coronavirus that threatens in the United Kingdom and in Europe with a terrifying wave of viruses across the planet: “And Venezuela is preparing to contain this new wave of the coronavirus, a product of the mutant virus.”

We have had a slight but significant rise. Today we had 315 cases, we are over 300 when we were for 200 cases a day,” he regretted, spreading some of the statistics of the day, during the ceremony held this Tuesday from the headquarters of the National Experimental University of Security (UNES) for the 11 years of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB).

He regretted that in the figures for the national day, four (4) people died from the viral disease.

He reported that of the total cases this Tuesday, 302 are community transmissions, which brings to 110,828 total infections accumulated since March, with 95% of patients recovered.

“Although the numbers in Venezuela are well below those of Colombia, which is a total disaster, just like in Brazil, the US and Europe,” he compared. He gave as an example that in the United States, last Saturday registered in a single day more than 400 thousand cases of infected with the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus.

Colombia has 50,000 a day, and their numbers have already passed 1,500,000 for long. It is chaos, and we must take care of ourselves because from Colombia comes all the evil that enters Venezuela due to the Colombian oligarchy and the disaster, the violence, the mercenaries, the terrorists, the mutant virus, everything. The Colombian people are abandoned and orphaned of social, health and life care”, he denounced.