{"id":118728,"date":"2021-03-28T06:24:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T06:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=118728"},"modified":"2021-03-28T06:24:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T06:24:46","slug":"venezuelan-opposition-leader-juan-guaido-says-he-tested-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/venezuelan-opposition-leader-juan-guaido-says-he-tested-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido says he tested positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
CARACAS (REUTERS) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Saturday (March 27) that he has tested positive for the coronavirus and has mild symptoms.<\/p>\n
Mr Guaido said on his Twitter account that he is in isolation and expressed concern about the number of infections in the country.<\/p>\n
“I want to express my solidarity with the thousands of Venezuelans suffering during the pandemic,” Mr Guaido wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n
“Today we all have a relative or acquaintance affected by Covid-19.”<\/p>\n
Dozens of countries have backed Mr Guaido as interim president of Venezuela following Mr Maduro’s re-election in 2018 in a vote Western governments called a sham.<\/p>\n
The opposition leader added that he considered the arrival of Covid-19 vaccines to Venezuela urgent.<\/p>\n
Venezuela has received 700,000 doses, of which 500,000 were donated by China’s Sinopharm and the rest are Russia’s Sputnik V.<\/p>\n
Opposition leaders are separately negotiating to buy vaccines via the Covax programme using funds frozen in the United States.<\/p>\n
Venezuela’s official figures as of Saturday showed 155,663 cases of coronavirus and 1,555 deaths, though opposition critics say the actual figure is likely higher due to limited testing.<\/p>\n
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