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Nicolás Maduro has gone beyond his own limits today by accusing Colombia of "contaminating" Venezuela with buses full of infected people. "From one moment to the next they began to ride (the Venezuelan emigrants) on buses, they gave them some sachets with some breadsticks, they came out healthy. They presume that they contaminated them on the buses. I warn everyone of evil, of perversity", accused the "son of Chávez" in one of his regular television appearances.

As if it were a new science fiction series and "with the evidence in my hands," Maduro directly pointed to Colombian President Iván Duque to order the contamination of his country with coronavirus. "That is the order that Duque has given in an unfortunate meeting. We are not going to allow it to infect Venezuela with Covid-19," said the Chavista chief, who has ordered maximum alert to his police and troops.

"We have decreed the strict sanitary cord because we are not going to allow the overflow of cases in Brazil and Colombia and the evil of Duque to contaminate Venezuela," stressed the "president people."

In the last part issued by the Bolivarian government, the number of infected in the country amounts to 824, after the 75 positives detected in the last hours. Of these, 67 correspond to 66 Venezuelans from Colombia and one from Brazil. "I am sure that the pandemic is controlled in the country and that it only has a terrible emergency on the border," added the Chavista leader, who has ordered the health emergency and curfews in the border municipalities. The government's plan is based on installing a field hospital on the border and multiplying the number of beds, up to 3,000.

Maduro also showed his anger after learning that four doctors were infected by the virus, "because there are security protocols and there are sufficient teams. There is no explanation why they are contaminated. I do not accept this type of weakness in the discipline, we must ensure every healthcare worker. There are the gloves, the mask, the glasses. "

Deputy José Manuel Olivares, an oncologist by profession, immediately responded to the revolutionary chief: "We do know why. Because there are no biosafety teams, because there is no soap or water in hospitals, because tests take too many days and it is not known in time who is infected and who is not. "

The Bolivarian revolution does not accept any other story than its own, not only in terms of political events, but also with the pandemic. Last week, he attacked and threatened the Academy of Physical, Natural and Mathematical Sciences, after publishing an investigation that calculates that the peak of the pandemic in Venezuela would arrive between June and September, with 4,000 new cases per day in the first month.

The thesis held by academics is that the actual size of the pandemic cannot be measured because the tests carried out are insufficient. So far the revolutionary government has carried out around half a million rapid tests, which will expand to a million in the coming days, but which do not have the approval of the World Health Organization (WHO).

In contrast, PCR tests are only performed in a laboratory throughout the country, no more than 100 tests per day , around 6,000 in total, which is five times less than neighboring countries such as Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

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