Venezuela requests financing from the IMF in fight against Covid-19
Under the supreme premise of strengthening the response capabilities of the Venezuelan health system in the containment of Covid-19, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has officially requested financing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the amount of 5 billion dollars.
In a letter addressed to IMF Director General, Kristalina Georgieva, the Venezuelan president explains that these resources will contribute significantly to strengthening the detection and response systems for the coronavirus in Venezuela.
“At this crucial moment, and conscious of the aggressiveness and high level of contagion of this disease, we will continue to take swift and vigorous measures to stop its spread,” said the dignitary in the letter released by the Minister of the People’s Power for Foreign Relations, Jorge Arreaza, through his Twitter account, @jaarreaza.
President Nicolás Maduro declares all Venezuela is in social quarantine for Covid-19
President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, declared on Monday that the entire national territory is in social quarantine due to the increase in confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, better known as Covid-19.
The president announced that the number of confirmed cases in the country had increased to 33, after registering another 16 infected people. In addition, he explained that of the total infected, 18 are women and 15 are men, of which 28 came from Europe and five from Cúcuta, Colombia.
Venezuela and Cuba strengthen actions to combat Coronavirus
Delegates from the Presidential Commission for the Prevention, Attention and Control of the coronavirus in Venezuela, held a meeting on Monday with Cuban specialists to strengthen strategies for the prevention and containment of the pandemic in the South American country.
The commission sent by the Cuban nation is made up of two specialists in epidemiology and a microbiologist attached to the Pedro Kourí Tropical Institute, a distinguished place in carrying out epidemiological surveillance protocols, isolation and treatment of confirmed cases of coronavirus on the island.
Likewise, also highlighted was the presence of Dr. Luis Herrera, the creator of Interferon alfa 2-B (medicine used to combat the virus in China. Dr Herrera works at the Center for Genetic and Biotechnological Engineering in Havana.
Military deployment due to quarantine in Venezuela announced
Venezuela’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said on Sunday that the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) will accompany health authorities to comply with the quarantine decreed by President, Nicolás Maduro. “A collective social quarantine means the application of control, access and exit measures in some states. We are ready to face the coronavirus pandemic,” said Minister Padrino López.
He also indicated that the measures announced by President Nicolás Maduro will be fulfilled and the FANB will contribute to it, “the measures will be applied to stop the spread of the virus, it is the most effective way,” he added.
President Maduro urges OPEC to work to stabilize the market
President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, called on the members and non-members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to work together to stabilize the market, given the effects that the coronavirus has had on the world economy. .
Facing the cessation of some activities due to this pandemic, the President declared that “after the collapse of crude oil prices, we have contacted OPEC partners to take initiatives for dialogue and meeting.” The Executive also urged non-OPEC countries to join the call to work to achieve “short, medium and long-term solutions that restore balance to the oil market.”
Venezuela and FAO sign new cooperation agreements
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Venezuela signed three new letters of agreement on Thursday to strengthen technical capacities and benefit the country’s rural populations.
According to the representative of the FAO in Venezuela, Rolf Hackbart, the objective of this new agreement is to boost the production of seeds, as well as the monitoring of food and nutritional security. “As the FAO we had two very intense and positive weeks of work with the Government of Venezuela in various areas, on statistical issues, in the area of animal and plant health, seed production to boost production in the country. We are convinced as the FAO and in our role of technical cooperation, that to produce is to feed, is to win “, assured Hackbart.
Venezuela thanked the WHO intermediation of the with Colombia for covid-19
The Executive Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, thanked the United Nations (UN) for the mediation that the World Health Organization (WHO) will do with the Colombian government in order to establish sanitary and epidemiological coordination to stop the spread of the coronavirus between both nations.
“We thank the UN for the intermediation of the WHO with the Colombian government to establish due sanitary and epidemiological coordination between Colombia and Venezuela for the benefit of the border populations. We will continue to protect the noble Venezuelan people! ” the Vice president wrote on Twitter.
