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“It is becoming more and more obvious that there is no control over information. No disease control. There is no control over death. There is no control over what happens in hospitals and no control over vaccinations. This is a warning. The pandemic in Venezuela is out of control, ”MUV said on its Twitter account.

Venezuela has had 250,309 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, and 2,814 people have died from the disease caused by the new virus, according to official figures released by the government, which were interviewed by various medical associations and the opposition. coronavirus.

In terms of vaccinations, official information indicates that the country has already received 3.23 million vaccines, including a batch of 500,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V that arrived in the country on Saturday, according to the EFE.

Venezuelan Vice President Delsi Rodriguez recently said that “about 11% of Venezuelans have been vaccinated against COVID-19,” which is about 3.3 million people, but that didn’t help how many of them received the first dose and how many have already received the vaccine. complete vaccination.

However, 6.6 million doses are needed to immunize 11% of the population, since the vaccines that Venezuela received – the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese VeroCell – consist of two doses.

The MUV organization also questioned the causes of the COVID-19 outbreak, which resulted from the concentration of the Venezuelan football team, which flew to Brazil to take part in the America’s Cup, which starts today.

On Saturday, the team coached by Jose Peseiro called 15 new players to the competition after several members of the delegation, including players, were infected with the new coronavirus.

According to the French agency AFP, the covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 3,797,342 deaths worldwide as a result of more than 175.5 million infections.

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