Source:
http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/n...-casos-por-covid-19-y-cinco-victimas-fatales/
Venezuela adds 146 cases for covid-19 and five fatalities
Odry Farnetano
April 2, 2020
The Executive Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Delcy Rodr?guez, reported that the country registers a total of 146 positive cases for coronavirus (Covid-19), after confirming this Thursday two infected and two deceased to add five deaths in total, reported during his address from the Miraflores Palace, in Caracas.
Advertising
He reported that one of those cases that reported positive today died. "This is a 64-year-old man from the Trujillo state, who was infected by a son who came from Ecuador and Peru." He added that the fatal victim had illness based on lung disease, hypertension, diabetes and was a smoker.
He explained that on March 22 the man presented symptoms and that four days ago he answered the survey; however, he was asymptomatic. On March 30, he went to the hospital and died yesterday.
It should be noted that the second patient reported today as a new covid-19 infection is the son of this deceased in the Trujillo state.
On the other hand, Vice President Rodr?guez reported a second death. ?It is one of the first cases of contagion. The patient was in intensive care, a resident of the Miranda state, a 63-year-old man.
He reported that the number of recovered amounts to 29% and that 5 patients are in intensive care; In addition, he emphasized on Thursday the need to maintain and strengthen the social, national and collective quarantine in the country in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19).
It should be noted that the second patient reported today as a new contagion of covid-19, is the son of this deceased in the Trujillo state.
On the other hand, Vice President Rodr?guez reported a second death. ?It is one of the first cases of contagion. The patient was in intensive care, a resident of the Miranda state, a 63-year-old man.
He reported that the number of recovered amounts to 29% and that 5 patients are in intensive care, also emphasized on Thursday the need to maintain and strengthen the social, national and collective quarantine in the country in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) and urged the population to give due importance to compliance with preventive regulations, take the provisions and comply with the guidelines established to avoid contagion.
He reported that 16,883,150 people have already answered the Patria System survey, through which the map that detected 111,230 people was derived and thanks to the deployment of 14 thousand workers who are doing the screening, 74,031 house-to-house visits have been made .
"Many people receive a text message informing them which health center should go to perform the discard test so that it never becomes the exponential curve," he said.
"Today we arrive on the 17th day of quarantine and we want to give recognition to the people of Venezuela who comply with their discipline and responsibility," he said.
He emphasized that the traveling vector joins the community vector and that the transmission chain must be cut. "For this, President Maduro has estimated four important steps:
Containing the pandemic
Cut with drive chains
Pandemic control to keep the curve flat
Resumes relative normality
“We have to be aware of the importance and need for quarantine. Only workers from essential sectors such as health, food and medicine workers (production, marketing and distribution) and essential services, FANB and security agencies should be on the streets. ” He also thanked the support for humanitarian aid to the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation–
