Opposition to the Maduro regime has announced the arrival in Venezuela of 32 tons of international aid with medical supplies

A plane with 32 tons of medical supplies, obtained thanks to international aid, landed this Sunday in Venezuela “to save the lives” of citizens and “correct the precariousness of the health system”, Opposition MP Miguel Pizarro reported.

“Today, Sunday 22 November 2020, A plane from Paris, sent by the international donor community, arrived in the country with 32 tons of medical supplies”Reads a statement from Pizarro and distributed by the team of opposition leader Juan Guaidó.

Among the supplies are personal protective equipment, “Hospital kits with essential supplies”, masks, soaps, eye protection, as well as “nutritional supplies and immunization campaign supplies”.

“Humanitarian aid is in support of the country and arrives in Venezuela thanks to the solidarity of governments and multilateral organizations”Adds Pizarro, appointed by Guaidó as commissioner for the United Nations.

For this he thanked the international donor community and humanitarian agencies “who continue to make it possible for this aid to reach Venezuelans”.

“At the same time, we remember that the humanitarian space and humanitarian principles must be respected: equality, neutrality, impartiality and operational independence; and the attempt at propaganda and manipulation must be condemned ”, the legislator stressed.

On November 4, the Venezuelan opposition condemned in a statement the alleged use that, as denounced, the regime of Nicolás Maduro made of the aid received by UNICEF to promote the political campaign of the ruling party in view of the legislative elections of the December 6. .

Furthermore, Pizarro warned on that occasion that the use of humanitarian aid for political propaganda goes against humanitarian principles.

The pandemic

Three women have died in Venezuela in the past 24 hours due to covid-19, with which 869 people are already killed by the disease caused by the new coronavirus, the regime’s Communications Minister Freddy Ñáñez reported on Saturday. In addition, 418 new infections were recorded, of which 363 transmitted in the community and 55 are “imported cases” by repatriated migrants.

The north-western state of Zulia, bordering Colombia, is the region where the most recent infected have been detected (140). In total, 78 of the cases were located in the capital, Maracaibo.

Behind is Caracas, with 65 new infections, followed by the states of Lara (38), Bolívar (30), Táchira (22), Miranda (17), Mérida (16), La Guaira (13), Aragua (12) , Nueva Esparta (6), Anzoátegui (3) and Trujillo (1).

Of the 55 “imported” cases, 53 came from Colombia and two from Brazil.

So from the beginning of the pandemic and according to the regime’s data, 99,435 infected with the new coronavirus have been confirmed in Venezuela, of which 94,355 have already recovered.

Venezuela will conclude seven days of partial economic relaxation tomorrow which, presumably, will be followed by a week of radical quarantine in a system that Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship calls 7 + 7.

(With information from EFE)

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