* Country has confirmed 1,121 coronavirus cases and 10 deaths
* Pandemic is ‘perfect excuse for regime to crack down’ – expert
Venezuelan claims that fewer than a dozen people have died in the country from Covid-19 are nonsensical and likely dramatically underestimate the severity of the situation there, Human Rights Watch activists have claimed.
The South American country, which faced a historic economic depression even before the pandemic, reported its first Covid-19 cases on 13 March and has since confirmed 1,121 cases and 10 deaths.
Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian ruler, has imposed a strict lockdown and urged citizens to exercise “maximum discipline” to defeat the coronavirus.
But on Tuesday the New York-based human rights group questioned Venezuela’s official figures as it released a new report on the health crisis facing the Caribbean nation.
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Update #1: Venezuela's official virus data is 'absurd': HRW and Johns Hopkins (AFP)
Update #2: Venezuela health system 'grossly unprepared' for COVID-19 crisis (Al Jazeera)
WNU Editor: According to Venezuela they have 1,121 cases and 10 deaths.
6 comments:
I'm pretty sure that Venezuela will have more healed people than death and the one who was death will be resuscitated because the Maduro policy, yes!.
Maduro is lying, but he could lie form a position of near honesty.
The Venezuela health system has collapsed. So there is no physical testing for corona. So you have a person dead due t flu like symptoms and Maduro honestly does not know if the rhino, corona or influenza virus did any particular person in.
I agree the Venezuelan numbers are not credible. They are actually likely overstated.
The so called "expert" is correct the pandemic is the perfect excuse for the regime to crack down. I've pointed this out from the very beginning. I'm pleased to see at least this "expert" is catching on.
If you want them eliminated, mark them down as exposed, test them, have the test come back "positive," quarantine them, and then they disappear having died of the virus. The "contact tracers" could be of huge benefit here. I'm sure their are plans for them to be used this way in a number of places and if that plan is not in place for them right now their mission could be changed at a future time.
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