393 New COVID-19 Cases Reported in Venezuela on Saturday (3 Deaths)
Venezuelan authorities reported 393 new COVID-19 cases in the Caribbean country for Saturday, November 7. Three new deaths were also reported.
Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, head of the Venezuelan presidential commission for COVID-19, posted the information on her Twitter account. She explained that out of the 393 new cases fifty-eight are imported cases, leaving the total for community transmission at 335 cases.
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The imported cases refer to fifty cases originating from Colombia, four from Ecuador, three from Peru and one from Uruguay. Twenty of these imported cases are minors, thirty-five are males and twenty-four females.
On the number of deaths, she specified that two are from Tachira state, both males, aged fifty-seven and thirty-one years old. The final death was of a seventy-one year-old woman from Carabobo state.
3/5 Además, lamentamos informar que hoy 3 venezolanos fallecieron a causa de este virus:
1 hombre de 57 años y 1 hombre de 31 años Táchira
1 mujer de 71 años – Carabobo— Delcy RodrĂguez (@drodriven2) November 8, 2020
Most of the new cases were registered in Merida state (ninety-nine), followed by the states of Lara (fifty-five), Barinas (forty-four) and Miranda, with forty-one cases.
Thirty-Three Weeks under Quarantine
The total number of COVID-19 cases reported in Venezuela during the last 237 days of quarantine has reached 98,698 when the new 393 cases are added.
https://twitter.com/drodriven2/status/1325239284853583875
95% of the cases have recovered, meaning 89,502 patients, and more than 98% of them have been treated for free in the Venezuelan national health care system. Currently there are 4,372 patients receiving medical care, 3,057 in public hospitals, 1,244 in CDI’s and forty-one in private hospitals.
The total number of deceased patients reached 824 since the first death was reported on March 26.
-Orinoco Tribune Editorial Staff
Featured image: Last Sunday Nov 1st, churches reopened for the first time in Venezuela since March. Photo courtesy of Noticias24Carabobo.
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