Venezuela’s dictatorship lying about number of COVID-19 cases

Like his puppet masters in Cuba are doing, socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro is lying about the number of coronavirus cases in Venezuela and the testing going on there. As history over the past century has taught us, you can never trust or believe communist regimes.

Sabrina Martin reports in PanAm Post:

Maduro is Lying About Venezuela’s Coronavirus Cases

Sources at the National Institute of Hygiene said there are only about 400 samples left and about 1,500 waiting for results

At the National Institute of Hygiene (INH) in Venezuela, there are few reagents left for the coronavirus (COVID-19). According to sources at the agency, only about 400 samples are left, and about 1,500 are waiting for results.

On Tuesday, April 28, Nicolás Maduro claimed that Venezuela “has no new infections.” Although he was boasting about it, the real reason is that tests are being carried out selectively because of the shortage of reagents.

“We don’t have new infections because we are not doing the same amount of testing as we did weeks ago, and that diminishes our ability to find infected patients,” an INH source said.

Until last week, the staff processed about 400 tests a day by working 24-hour shifts. However, they have been running out of reagents. So the few that remain are used only on patients who are critical or show symptoms of the virus.

“As there are few tests left, only those in hospitals with severe symptoms or those sent by the government are being tested,” the source said.

“There are only a few reagents left today. They will last for only about 300-400 samples. A shipment from abroad of some 55 boxes of reagents was expected to arrive last Thursday, but so far, they have not arrived in the country,” said an INH source.

Venezuela’s National Institute of Hygiene is the only body responsible for processing coronavirus confirmatory tests (PCR). The official figures provided by the regime regarding the disease come from here.

The unavailability of reagents is also causing a delay in the evaluation of approximately 1,000 tests that would have come from the Venezuelan border. So the results are not yet known.

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