This content was published on 24 September 2021 – 04:51
Caracas, Sep 23 (EFE) .- In the last 24 hours, 17 people died in Venezuela from covid-19, bringing the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic to 4,363, the Executive Vice President reported this Thursday , Delcy Rodríguez.
On the other hand, Rodríguez explained that, in the last 24 hours, the authorities detected 1,171 new infections in Venezuela, all by community transmission.
Caracas is the region with the most new cases (451), followed by Miranda state, which is home to a good part of the capital’s metropolitan area (346).
They are followed by Nueva Esparta (95), Lara (68), Yaracuy (53), Anzoátegui (52), Zulia (52), La Guaira (27), Guárico (11), Barinas (4), Aragua (4), Carabobo (4), Amazonas (2), Sucre (1) and Portuguesa (1).
Thus, Venezuela reaches 359,633 cases confirmed by the authorities, although 343,068 patients have already recovered (representing 95% of the total) and there are 12,202 active cases.
Hours before, President Nicolás Maduro warned of the increase in covid-19 infections in the Greater Caracas area and warned that, if the situation continues, it will be exempted from possible quarantine eases in November and December.
“I want to alert Greater Caracas, alert, because coronavirus infections in Greater Caracas have skyrocketed for two weeks and have not decreased, something is happening in Greater Caracas,” the president stressed in a government act broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
According to the data released, “the national average of coronavirus cases is 23 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants,” while in the capital, whose metropolitan area includes Caracas and the territory of two neighboring states, there are “90 cases per hundred one thousand inhabitants, more than triple the national average. “
The president also reported that 40% of the population has already been vaccinated and, within two weeks, the figure will be 58% thanks to “the arrival of vaccines” from “various systems” that he did not detail either.
Thus, he expects Venezuela to reach 70% of those vaccinated by the end of October. EFE
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