President Nicolás Maduro announced Sunday that he will isolate the Venezuelan capital and six other neighboring states to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. The number of infected people rose to 17.
Starting at 5 am Monday morning, the Venezuelan capital, the central states of La Guaira, Miranda, Cojedes, in addition to the border states with Colombia of Zulia and Táchira, “enter into social and collective quarantine,” Maduro said in a statement. statement broadcast on radio and television.
“Today we have detected seven more cases, seven cases, all of which are called imported cases, four of them from Europe; one from Cúcuta, the second case of Cúcuta detected ”, in addition to other cases from other parts of the world. The first two cases were reported on Friday.
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Maduro indicated that the residents of those regions, including Caracas and four municipalities in the neighboring state of Miranda, where more than six million people live, “should remain in their homes.”
“We have been honestly and crudely evaluating that the only way to stop the propagation channels is to enter, progressively and in an accelerated manner, a drastic phase of collective quarantine,” he added.
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