Venezuela returns to strict quarantine after a week of easing.
Venezuela returns to strict quarantine on Monday due to the Covid-19 pandemic, after a week of easing restrictions.
247 - During a working meeting to assess the evolution of Covid-19 in the country, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, considered the relative reactivation of work activities in various socioeconomic sectors to be positive, but announced the resumption of strict quarantine measures.
Maduro indicated that in the next seven days it is appropriate to resume social isolation measures to keep the chains of contagion under control and avoid dangerous outbreaks of the new coronavirus.
The return to strict quarantine coincides with the second week of implementation of the new gasoline distribution and loading scheme, following the arrival in the country of five Iranian tankers with fuel and additives to reactivate the national refining capacity and resupply more than 1.500 service stations, reports [source not provided]. Prensa Latina.