Venezuela registered 406 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, 405 of community transmission and 1 case imported from Colombia with entry through Táchira state, as announced on Thursday the sectoral vice president for Communication, Culture and Tourism, Freddy Ñáñez.
From his account on the Twitter social network @luchaalmada he informed that “the community cases are distributed in: Caracas (101), Miranda (81), Carabobo (79), Zulia (32), Cojedes (30), Barinas (17), Yaracuy (13), Trujillo (11), Lara (7), Sucre (6), Bolivar (6), La Guaira (6), Nueva Esparta (4), Anzoátegui (4), Falcón (3), Guárico (2), Delta Amacuro (1), Táchira (1), Monagas (1)”.
“Today, the entity with the highest number of infections is the Capital District in 21 of its parishes: Sucre (14), Coche (13), El Valle (12), Altagracia (8), La Pastora (8), San Agustín (6), El Paraíso (4), El Recreo (4), San José (3), El Junquito (3), San Juan (3), among others”, highlighted the Minister of Communication and Information.
He also detailed that the country has registered a “total of 125,364 confirmed cases and 117,447 people recovered, which represents 94% of the contagions”.
“We have 6,746 active cases, 6,617 are being treated in the public health system, 129 in private clinics and none in home isolation,” sad the head of the communications portfolio in his account.
He also noted that of the active cases there are “3,493 patients are asymptomatic, 2,870 with mild Acute Respiratory Insufficiency, 274 with Moderate Acute Respiratory Insufficiency and 109 in the Intensive Care Units.”
“Unfortunately we report 6 deaths: 2 men aged 63 and 86 from Miranda state, 1 man aged 65 and 1 child aged 2 from Lara state, 1 man aged 62 from Yaracuy state and 1 man aged 73 from Merida state. Condolences to their families and loved ones”, lamented Ñáñez.
Finally, the sectoral vice-president of communications emphasized that 2,614,275 tests have been performed to date, which represents 87,143 tests per million inhabitants.
