Nicolás Maduro announced that the regime’s military and politicians will have priority to access the vaccine against COVID-19 in Venezuela

The dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas maduro, announced that regime’s military and politicians will take priority when it comes to getting vaccinated against COVID-19 in Venezuela.

Among the priority sectors are also “the 14,000 door-to-door visit brigades“- the regime’s supporters who, Maduro says, monitored the infections – the staff of”social work who constantly visits houses, looking after the needs “and”security personnel walking the streets to protect people, ”he said.

The dictator explained in a public message that the The officials of the regime and the deputies of the Chavist National Assembly – not recognized by much of the international community – will also have priority, While Maduro himself and his wife, Cilia Flores, also an MP, will also be part of this group..

“Authorities are included in the vaccination plan that, by their work, they justify their street activity, their special protection so that the State continues its march. Likewise, the deputies will be vaccinated in this first stage ”, he specified to justify the decision.

Maduro said he hopes that by April Venezuela will be in “a mass vaccination phase“, And that the country can count on vaccines developed by Cuba, China, Russia and those acquired through the COVAX mechanism, although he stressed that it will be the National Institute of Hygiene”who has the last wordAbout its possible approval. In the latter case, Venezuela has not paid the amount required to acquire the inoculants managed by the World Health Organization, and PAHO said on Wednesday that it will have to shell out $ 18 million in advance.

The Venezuelan dictator too turned to its ally Russia to acquire 10 million Sputnik V vaccines and from which last Saturday a first batch of 100,000 doses has arrived, this will start to be applied in the next few hours to health workers.

“We approved the Sputnik V vaccine because our scientific studies have proven its total and absolute harmlessness,” he said.

Maduro was open to “private” vaccination

At the same press conference, the Venezuelan dictator was open to allowing a private sector to operate for vaccination against COVID-19 in the country, as a means of countering the “blockingResources which, as he said, made it difficult to buy vaccines.

“It could be (…) in the middle of the sanctions battle, bad it wouldn’t beMaduro said when asked about a private vaccine market that is racking up 133,927 cases and 1,292 deaths in Venezuela.

The President thus entrusted the Presidential Commission for the Prevention and Control of COVID-19, headed by the Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, conduct a study with the Ministry of Health to assess the possibility of authorizing the private vaccine market.

Maduro has repeatedly denounced that Venezuela has blocked resources in the United States and, although to a lesser extent, in other countries, which made it difficult to buy vaccines to immunize the population.

The situation led the regime and representatives of the opposition led by Juan Guaidó to sit down to negotiate agree to buy vaccines and access the Covax mechanism, a global collaborative initiative that aims to accelerate the development of COVID-19 treatments, tests and prevention methods.

Guaidó said he was ready to seek the resources so that their country can enter the program, but that its implementation It depends on the acceptance of Maduro’s diet by the regime of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which coordinates the mechanism in the region.

Maduro said on Wednesday that the negotiation “is in full developmentAnd that he hoped it would end in a favorable and successful way.

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