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enwiki-01095289-0066-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Other reactions, International sanctions
On 24 March, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called for any sanctions imposed on Venezuela and other countries facing the pandemic such as Cuba, Iran, and Zimbabwe to be "urgently reevaluated" in order to avoid pushing strained medical systems into collapse. | {
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In a statement, Bachelet said: "At this crucial time, both for global public health reasons, and to support the rights and lives of millions of people in these countries, sectoral sanctions should be eased or suspended." | {
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enwiki-01095289-0066-0000-0002 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Other reactions, International sanctions
Bachelet also accentuated the need to protect health workers in these countries as authorities should not punish professionals that point out the deficiencies in the state response to the crisis. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0067-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Other reactions, International sanctions
On 10 June 2021, Venezuelan officials announced they have been unable to complete payments for available vaccines from the COVAX program. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0067-0000-0001 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Other reactions, International sanctions
Initially the transaction of $120 million was to be paid per agreement with opposition leader Juan Guaido using funds frozen in the United States via Washington's sanctions against Maduro, but later Venezuelan officials said they would use their own funds. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0067-0000-0002 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Other reactions, International sanctions
Subsequently, Swiss bank UBS confirmed that four operations, totaling $4.6 million, "were blocked and under investigation." | {
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Vice President Delcy Rodriguez remarked the remaining payment of $10 million could not be completed. | {
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UBS would not specify further due to legal and regulatory reasons. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0067-0001-0001 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Other reactions, International sanctions
The Maduro government said for months that it was unable to pay for the COVAX program because of U.S. sanctions. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0067-0001-0002 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Other reactions, International sanctions
Venezuela expressed interest in the Janssen and Novavax vaccines after the requested shipment of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines was never approved by national authorities. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0067-0001-0003 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Other reactions, International sanctions
In August 2021, those payments were reportedly unblocked, and Venezuela will receive 6.2 million doses of the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines through the program. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0068-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern
International concern was raised before the first cases were reported, as Venezuela's health care system has completely collapsed due to the ongoing crisis, meaning its already suffering population is especially vulnerable to the spread of a pandemic. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0069-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern
Per the Global Health Security Index, Venezuela's health system is ranked among the worst in the world in its ability to detect, quickly respond, and mitigate a pandemic. | {
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Hospitals are plagued by chronic shortages of supplies, including eye protectors, gloves, masks, and soap. | {
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Due to ongoing shortages of resources, hospitals must also constantly deal with chronic lack of staff, thus making the response to treating a large number of infected patients significantly more challenging. | {
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Patients are also often turned away at hospitals due to overcrowding, or asked to bring in their own gauze, IV solution, or syringes, while there are often no hygiene facilities like toilets, and power outages are a regular occurrence. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0070-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said that it would be prioritizing Venezuela alongside Haiti and other Central and South American countries because of “challenges to their health systems.” | {
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enwiki-01095289-0071-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern
Associated Press reported that experts are worried that the Venezuelan refugee crisis could worsen the spread of the virus. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0072-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern, Prison system
Reuters reported that Venezuela's notoriously overcrowded and unsanitary prisons could spread the coronavirus "like a fast-moving fire." | {
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Venezuelan prisons frequently lack bathrooms, people sleep on floors, and many inmates spend their days without shirts or shoes on, in part to combat the infernal heat of windowless facilities. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0072-0000-0002 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern, Prison system
This has caused US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to demand the Maduro government release six Citgo executives, held in prison since 2017, on humanitarian grounds. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0072-0000-0003 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern, Prison system
Pompeo said that all six men have weakened immune systems and "face a grave health risk if they become infected" with the coronavirus pandemic. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0073-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern, Prison system
On 18 March, 84 out of 518 inmates escaped from a prison in San Carlos, Zulia, after restrictions against the pandemic were announced, including jail visits. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0073-0000-0001 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern, Prison system
Mayor Bladimir Labrador declared that ten prisoners were killed during the prison break and that two policemen were detained for complicity. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0073-0000-0002 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern, Prison system
According to Carlos Nieto Palma from the NGO Ventana a la Libertad, the suspension of visits directly affects the prisoner's nutrition, given that there was no state-sponsored program to feed them. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0073-0000-0003 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern, Prison system
The NGO PROVEA denounced "grave human rights violations" after a military spokesperson announced the "neutralization" of 35 escapees. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0073-0000-0004 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, International concern, Prison system
State authorities later declared that there were eight deaths. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0074-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Hearing over the Esequibo
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) planned to discuss Guyana and Venezuela border dispute over Guayana Esequiba in March 2020. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0074-0000-0001 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Hearing over the Esequibo
The hearing was postponed due to the pandemic. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0074-0000-0002 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Hearing over the Esequibo
In April, Guyana reported cases of COVID-19 in the disputed territory. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0075-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Hearing over the Esequibo
The first hearing was finally carried out on 30 June 2020, but Venezuela did not participate saying that the ICJ lacked jurisdiction. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0075-0000-0001 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Reactions, Hearing over the Esequibo
The hearing was held by video conference due to the pandemic. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0076-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Economic impact
As a result of the pandemic's economic impact, some businesses have sought to supplement lost business with deliveries, though exact figures remain obscure and the services are prohibitively costly for average Venezuelans. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0076-0000-0001 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Economic impact
Some have started to make deliveries to support their families using bicycles instead of motorcycles due to gasoline shortages. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0077-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
In a national broadcast on 27 February 2020, Nicolás Maduro warned that COVID-19 may have been a US-made biological weapon aimed against China, without providing any evidence. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0078-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
Maduro has supported in social media the use of infusions as a cure to COVID-19. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0078-0000-0001 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
Twitter deleted a tweet of Maduro in March that cited the works of Sergio Quintero, a Venezuelan doctor that claims to have found an herbal antidote against COVID-19. | {
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Quintero also claims that the virus was created by the United States as a biological weapon. | {
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The works were also posted in Facebook and government webpages and shared by thousands of users. | {
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The Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research refuted Quintero's claims. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0078-0000-0005 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
Agence France Presse has fact checked this information and has cataloged Quintero's works as misleading and false, no natural cure has either been approved by other specialists nor by the World Health Organization. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0079-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
Maduro's administration has authorized and supported the use of chloroquine and interferon alfa-2b at large scale as treatments for COVID-19. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0079-0000-0001 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
Interferon alfa-2b is an antiviral that has been used in China and has been promoted by Cuba, sometimes as a "vaccine". | {
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Both chloroquine and interferon have not been proven to be effective against the disease. | {
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Chloroquine is an antimalarial drug that can cause cardiac problems if abused. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0080-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
Throughout March and July 2020, Maduro and his administration have accused Colombia of promoting the "intentional infection" of Venezuelan migrants that returned to their country, saying they were "biological weapon" and threatening them with quarantine. | {
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Local authorities have repeated the accusations since. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0080-0000-0002 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
Maduro administration has given the hypothesis of a "Colombian virus", that would be a more aggressive strain of the virus, to explain the increase in numbers in neighboring Zulia state, but no medical evidence has been provided. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0081-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
Maduro notified the Pan American Health Organization in October 2020, that a molecule that nullifies the replication capacity of the new coronavirus had been discovered, yet no proof was ever disclosed. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0082-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
In early 2021, Nicolás Maduro started promoting Carvativir, a thyme-based oral medication that he said was tested on patients in Caracas and neutralizes COVID-19 with no side effect. | {
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He described the drug as "tears of José Gregorio Hernández", a 19th-century Venezuelan doctor beatified in 2020. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0082-0000-0002 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
Dr. Francisco Marty, an infectious diseases expert at Brigham and Women's Hospital said that the claims about the efficiency of drug effects were unsubstantiated. | {
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Dr. David Boulware, professor of medicine and an infectious diseases physician at the University of Minnesota Medical School, noted the lack of scientific data. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0082-0000-0004 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
Venezuela's National Academy of Medicine stated that Carvativir had therapeutic potential against coronavirus but warned that, according to international protocols, more data was needed to consider it an anti-COVID-19 medication. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0083-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Misinformation by authorities
In March 2021, Nicolás Maduro Facebook page was frozen for violating policies against spreading misinformation about the coronavirus of the website. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0084-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Concerns with government estimates
The official reports have not always been consistent, presenting errors such as missing states, numbers that do not match and inconsistencies with the published estimates. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0084-0000-0001 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Concerns with government estimates
The government keeps a centralized system and does not authorize private clinics and universities to access the tests processing. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0085-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Concerns with government estimates
The government receives many tests kits from China. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0085-0000-0001 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Concerns with government estimates
Early May, the Maduro administration reported to have performed over 400,000 tests, the largest number of tests in South America at the time. | {
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Many of these tests are unreliable rapid tests, raising the possibility of a large number of false positives and negatives. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0086-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Concerns with government estimates
As of 17 April, only the laboratory of the National Institute of Hygiene (INH) was certified to analyze COVID-19 tests. | {
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It is estimated that the INH only has the capacity to analyze 100 samples per day. | {
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The current virology team consists of three technicians, working on aging equipment. | {
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In comparison, Colombia has 38 certified labs. | {
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The government does not allow universities or private clinics to test, even if they have the capacity to do so. | {
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Due to lack of transparency, even some top health officials do not know how fast the epidemic is spreading. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0086-0000-0006 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Concerns with government estimates
According to health workers that disclosed information to Reuters, the government is prioritizing sectors that are allied with the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. | {
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enwiki-01095289-0087-0000-0000 | COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela, Concerns with government estimates
The Maduro administration was reporting an average of less than a dozen cases daily until the last weeks of May, a very low number compared to other countries in South America. | {
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Human Rights Watch and Johns Hopkins University published that Venezuela's hospitals were "grossly unprepared" and most hospitals lack running water. | {
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The American director from Human Rights Watch indicated that “Maduro's statistics are absolutely absurd,” in a country "where doctors do not even have water to wash their hands.” | {
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Kathleen Page from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine involved in the report said that some of the health official interviewed stated "that even when they see confirmed cases of Covid-19 they are not being reported in the epidemiological reports”. | {
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Many Venezuelans are skeptical of the government statistics due to the Maduro administration's history of hiding numbers. | {
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Juan Guaidó has questioned the veracity of the official number of cases, stating that there are inconsistencies in the estimates given. | {
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In an interview with El Nuevo Herald on 22 March, Guaidó declared that the number of confirmed cases in Venezuela could be more than two hundred, according to opposition estimates, contrary to the 70 cases that Maduro's administration recognized at the moment. | {
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El Nuevo Herald reported that internal sources extraofficially confirmed that estimate, that according to said sources there were 181 confirmed cases on the morning of 21 March and a total of 298 in observation. | {
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, when discussing Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and Zimbabwe, called for the easing of sanctions to enable their medical systems to combat COVID-19. | {
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These countries should provide transparent information and accept offers of humanitarian help when needed, according to Bachelet. | {
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She also said that Venezuela suffers from many kind of supply and technical shortages, that pre-date the sanctions. | {
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She also called Venezuelan government to protect health workers saying that they "should never be punished by the authorities for pointing out deficiencies in the response to the crisis." | {
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Four cases were extraofficially reported in El Helicoide on 18 March 2020, three women and a male officer of the motorized brigade of the National Police. | {
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A person self-identified as a member of the Tupamaro colectivo in the 23 de Enero parish of Caracas declared to his community with a megaphone that a case was confirmed on 19 March 2020, specifically in Block 39, asking his neighbors to stay home and to prevent other blocks from being infected. | {
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Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional, reported a total of 65 cases for 20 March, according to undisclosed sources from the Health Ministry. | {
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On that day the ministry did not report any official numbers, the toll was officially updated the next day going from 42 to 70. | {
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Similarly, before the official report on 23 March, El Nacional reported 84 cases according undisclosed source from the Health Ministry. | {
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The Academy of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Science (Spanish: Academia de Ciencias Físicas, Matemáticas y Naturales) warned that on 2 April the epidemiological curves of Venezuela were unusual, saying that there was just a linear increase of accumulated confirmed cases, a pattern that is atypical for the initial phase of COVID-19 outbreaks. | {
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Physician and opposition deputy, Jose Manuel Olivares, said Maduro's administration has concealed at least four COVID-19 deaths from the 10 it has made public up to 27 May 2020. | {
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Two of these extra cases had received PCR tests that resulted positive after their death, but were not counted in the official reports. | {
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On 13 March, Delta Amacuro indigenous leader and journalist Melquiades Ávila, who has criticized health infrastructure in the country, questioned publicly through Facebook "will our hospital be ready for coronavirus?” and ridiculed Maduro's claim that 46 hospitals were prepared for COVID-19. | {
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The Governor of Delta Amacuro Lizeta Hernández and member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, sent the state army to detain Ávila. | {
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When asked why by Reuters on the matter, she said that it was to “orient” Ávila and ensure he was being “serious and responsible”. | {
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An opposition lawmaker, Tony Geara, was arrested on 14 March in a roadblock after declaring that there was no running water in one of the hospitals listed as prepared by the Bolivarian government. | {
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A court charged Geara with illegal possession of explosives and weapons. | {
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Geara denies the charges. | {
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According to twelve medical workers interviewed by Reuters, security forces use roadblocks and checkpoints to shakedown medical staff. | {
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Julio Molinos, a medical union leader and retired technician, published a video asking the government to be transparent about hospital conditions on 15 March. | {
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Special Action Force (FAES) arrested Molinos, who was sentenced to house arrest on charges of conspiracy and inciting hatred. | {
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The National Assembly released a webpage to provide information and health recommendations on COVID-19 but the access to the website was restricted by CANTV, the state internet provider. | {
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The censorship was denounced by Guaidó. | {
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Iván Virgüez, a 65-year-old human rights lawyer was arrested in April for criticizing the conditions of quarantine centers for migrants returning to Venezuela. | {
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He reports to the Human Rights Watch to have been handcuffed for two hours under the sun to a metal tube 2 feet off the ground and was denied a bathroom for 26 hours. | {
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