This Sunday, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that “Venezuela registers 15 cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure obtained in the last week of December, and maintains a recovery rate of 95%”.
This was announced through the official report presented by the Presidential Commission for the Control and Prevention of COVID-19, in the company of the Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, and the Minister of People’s Power for Health, Carlos Alvarado.
In this sense, the Head of State assured that “a trend of slow weekly growth is maintained, for the third consecutive week, a greater increase in active cases is expected for the next weeks of January.”
Likewise, he highlighted that the document indicates that the country had a sustained reduction in mid-September until the last week of November, date on which the nation entered “a plateau of active cases that had remained with little variation during the month of November and the first two weeks of December, when a slow increase in cases begins from the third week of December”.
Likewise, the dignitary pointed out that this week there was a decrease in three entities: Guárico, Táchira and La Guaira. “Another seven entities had growth: Caracas, Anzoátegui, Apure, Delta Amacuro, Lara, Miranda and Nueva Esparta, while 14 states maintained a stable trend, the rest of the country, Amazonas, Aragua, Barinas, Bolívar, Carabobo, Cojedes, Falcón , Mérida, Monagas, Portuguesa, Sucre, Trujillo, Yaracuy and Zulia ”.
Finally, President Maduro announced that the entities with the highest total number of active cases of COVID-19 are:
Zulia: 871 cases.
Yaracuy: 585 cases.
Miranda: 578 cases.
Capital District: 532 cases.
La Guaira: 526 cases.
Lara: 473 cases.
Merida: 421 cases.
Carabobo: 336 cases.
