Venezuela slows rate of active COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants

An average of 756 new infections and 604 recovered patients per day is the record presented by President Nicolás Maduro at the end of the first week of radical, conscious and voluntary relaxation of the two decreed before the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 and its Brazilian P1 and P2 variants, figures that reflect a slowdown in the rate of active COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

During the customary weekly balance of the Presidential Commission for the Control and Prevention of COVID-19, the Head of State specified that until this Sunday, Venezuela registers 9,802 active cases, with an average of active cases last week, of 9,551 cases.

He pointed out that in the week that ended, an average of 756 new cases and 604 recovered patients were registered per day.

We came from a plateau of 20 active cases per 100,000 inhabitants in February, which began to rise in March, reaching 21 cases per 100,000, in the second week it rose to 27 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, reaching in the third week to 30 cases per 100,000 inhabitants”, he explained.

He explained that since last Friday, March 19, the country began to present an increase in infections by registering 937 cases, from Saturday 20 to 1,161, on Sunday 21 to 817, on Monday 22, 771 infections, on Tuesday 23 a total of 614, 807 were registered on Wednesday 24, Thursday March 25 850, on Friday March 26 740, on Saturday March 27 758 cases, this Sunday March 28, totaling an average of 992 contagion cases.

He regretted that in the country there was an increase in the average number of deaths due to Covid 19, which went from 3-4 deaths average, to 10-12 deaths as of today.

In this regard, he recalled that the Brazilian variants of COVID-19 arrived in the country with great virulence: “It is causing havoc in Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Peru”, and urged that, just as the contagion in the country accelerated “Screenings and treatments to cut these transmission chains must be accelerated throughout the country.”

“We must carry out direct and rapid tests, detect cases and hospitalize them, perfect treatments with all the treatments that we brought from the world and Venezuelan antivirals, anticoagulants and steroids in time so that patients do not get worse, the protocols have been improved and adapted to the variants, but all those who are infected should receive prompt treatment”, he emphasized.

The National President reported that to date an increase in cases of the Brazilian variant has been detected in Caracas, La Guaira, Miranda and Bolívar. “We also observe a significant increase in cases on the highway from Bolívar, Monagas, Anzoátegui and Nueva Esparta and in other states such as Aragua,” he warned.

The report detailed that a total of nine entities registered growth in cases this week, five of them grew more than 10 points: Caracas, Miranda, Bolívar, Monagas and Nueva Esparta.

Eight states remained with a stable trend: Amazonas, Barinas, Carabobo, Cojedes, Lara, Portuguesa, Sucre and Táchira and seven other states presented a reduction in the number of cases: Zulia, Yaracuy, Mérida, Guárico, Falcón, Delta Amacuro and Anzoátegui .

The entities with the highest number of active cases indicated that these are: Caracas with 3,085 cases; Miranda with 1,535; La Guaira 873; Bolivar 827; Monagas 468; Nueva Esparta 433; 326 in Carabobo and 318 in Aragua.

As for the entities with the highest rate of active cases, these are:

La Guaira with 228 active cases per 100,000 inhabitants; Caracas (148 active cases per 100,000 inhabitants), Nueva Esparta (68 active cases per 100,000), Miranda (46 active cases per 100,000); Monagas (45 active cases per 100,000); Bolívar (44 active cases per 100,000) and Yaracuy (32 active cases per 100,000).

Finally, he issued a new exhortation to the population to attend to any symptoms related to Covid 19 in time and to go to the healthcare centers for screening tests, emphasizing the virulent and contagious nature of the Brazilian variant.