Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has been vaccinated against the coronavirus

The dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas maduro, received this Saturday on first dose of Russian vaccine Sputnik V with his wife, Cilia floresstate television reported.

“I’m vaccinated, I don’t feel any kind of ‘skalosky’ or ‘fiebrasky’Maduro joked. “They say you go out speaking Russian“Said the 58-year-old head of state, amid the laughter of those present.

Citing studies spread around the world, Maduro, who has one of its main allies in Russia with China, Cuba and Turkey, pointed out that the Sputnik V vaccine “is a potent vaccine to generate immunity“.

“It does not hurt“Commented his wife.”Cilia is braver than me, it hurt me“Maduro said.

On February 18, Venezuela began delivering the first dose of the Russian COVID-19 Sputnik V vaccine to health workers nationwide, after receiving 100,000 of the 10 million doses ordered.

Monday, March 1, 500,000 vaccines from the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm arrived in the Caribbean country. The president announced the day before that its application would begin on Monday.

“Monday of next week, vaccination with Chinese vaccine begins, we are therefore going to vaccinate with the Russian vaccine Sputnik and with the Chinese vaccine, ”he said on Friday during a ceremony to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the death of his mentor, former President Hugo Chávez.

Venezuela also has between 1.4 and 2.4 million AstraZeneca vaccines booked through the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Covax system. However, they could not arrive due to debts with the WHO.

With 30 million inhabitants, Venezuela added 140,960 cases and 1,364 deaths from COVID-19 until Friday, according to official figures.

They denounce the lack of dose in the country

Two posters hung on the doors of Caracas University Hospital and José Manuel de los Ríos Children’s Hospital spoke out this week. Health workers protested the lack of vaccines against the coronavirus and the equipment to perform PCR tests in Venezuela, and said that already in six hospitals, the doses were exhausted.

“Where are the vaccines?” Asked the large banner placed in front of two of the most important health centers in the Caribbean country.

Collective Health monitor, who is presented on social networks as the voice of health workers in the Caribbean country, denounced having records which indicate that “Vaccines against Sputnik V to vaccinate healthcare workers against COVID-19 have been completed in six hospitals″.

And he gave a detail of the lack of antidotes. In the eastern region, they were sold to Dr. Felipe Guevara Rojas Hospital and IVSS Luis Ortega – MPPS. In the western region, at the Armando Velázquez Mago hospital. And, in the central region, at the Clínico Universitario hospital, at the Central de Maracay and at Ciudad Hospitalaria Enrique Tejera.

“In five of these six sentinel hospitals for the management of patients with coronavirus, a large part of the staff went without receiving their first dose of vaccines»Addition of the monitor via his official Twitter account.

(With information from AFP)

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