Coronavirus.- Venezuela reports the shipment of 136,000 liters of oxygen to the Brazilian city of Manaus

MADRID, 18 (EUROPA PRESS)

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, confirmed this Sunday the shipment of a cargo of 136,000 liters of oxygen to the city of Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, which in latest days has confirmed the collapse of its system of Well being.

“We aspire for this oxygen to arrive quickly for the folks of Brazil, and the folks of Brazil ought to know that to the finest of our skill and past that we’re prepared to help them,” President Maduro remarked throughout his common Sunday look on public tv. Venezuelan.

At the starting of final week, the Brazilian Minister of Well being, Normal Eduardo Pazuello, acknowledged that there had been “a collapse in the care of the well being system in Manaus” and that the queue to get a mattress had grown “quite a bit” , remembering the disaster that the city suffered throughout the month of April, when photos of mass graves in crowded cemeteries went round the world.

The capital of Amazonas has additionally confronted a scarcity of hospital oxygen in latest days, which led the important provide firms of the state authorities, akin to White Martins, to go to the Venezuelan market to have the opportunity to reply to demand, reported the newspaper ‘ Folha de Sao Paulo ‘.

The state of Amazona has confirmed 230,644 gathered instances and 6,191 deaths. Brazil, in accordance to its newest stability, has already identified virtually 8.5 million infections and shut to 210,000 deaths.

“GEOPOLITICAL WAR FOR THE VACCINE”

On the different hand, Maduro has denounced “the unjust and unequal world system that exists”, after the World Well being Group (WHO) warned that 95 p.c of the doses of the first vaccines have been concentrated solely in a dozen international locations.

That’s the reason Maduro has identified that there’s “a geopolitical conflict for the vaccine” and has regretted that there are “190 international locations in the world that haven’t had the proper to have vaccines”, a incontrovertible fact that “reveals the unjust and unequal world system that exists” .

Confronted with this case, President Maduro has introduced that steps are being taken to create a “vaccine financial institution” via the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) “to meet” this needn’t solely in the international locations of the group, but in addition for these of the relaxation of Latin America and the Caribbean.

For his half, the Minister of Well being, Carlos Alvarado, has reported this Sunday one other 497 instances of coronavirus, of which 488 are of neighborhood transmission. In whole, 119,803 have contracted the illness, of which 1,106 have died.