translated from Spanish: Venezuela receives medical equipment from China, which offers experts from COVID-19

Caracas.- Venezuela on Saturday received 55 tons of medical materials and drugs from China, a country that offered the government of Nicolás Maduro experts and information to help stop the contagions of COVID-19, a disease that has already claimed two victims in the South American nation. The cargo, which is part of the Asian giant’s second delivery to its Latin American ally and combines purchases with humanitarian aid, arrived after 13 p.m. on the largest ramp of Maiquetía International Airport, the country’s main airport serving Caracas.

“The Chinese government is ready to send a group of specialists to Venezuela in support of this great struggle of the Venezuelan people,” the Chinese ambassador to Venezuela, Li Baorong, said from the place.
To exchange views and also to offer unreserved experiences,” the diplomat added.

For her stop, Venezuela’s executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, reported that there are half a million kits for rapid testing of the new coronavirus, five million masks, fans, CT scanners and safety gloves.

Rodriguez. / Government of Venezuela.

It also indicated that some 100,000 “isolation and protective suits” for the country’s health personnel, sedatives, antivirals, thermometers and some 30,000 units of chloroquine, a drug that has been shown to be useful in combating COVID-19, are also carried out for the load. In addition, the Venezuelan official advanced that in the coming hours the representative Nicolás Maduro will offer information on a “new stage” of combating COVID-19.

Mature. / EFE.

Venezuela decreed a country-wide quarantine two weeks ago and limited work activities to only essential ones: food, health and safety. However, the country has two deaths from COVID-19 and 113 infected, although the minister of information, Jorge Rodríguez, has pointed out that the affected curve tends to “flatten”, as it considers that mass confinement delivers good results in the Caribbean country. 

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