Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on Wednesday that seven cases of the new Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 have been confirmed in the Latin American country.
The infected people had traveled to other countries, including Panama, the Dominican Republic, Spain and Turkey; their infections were detected during tests they underwent immediately upon arrival at the airport, Maduro said. on state television.
“Omicron has arrived and is more contagious,” he warned.
The head of state stressed that the authorities want 90% of the population to have been vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible, even within the year, and to start giving booster doses in the first week of January 2022.
Caracas claims that 87% of the population has already been immunized – but the World Health Organization, the World Health Organization’s regional director, has a very different estimate: it estimates that the percentage of the fully vaccinated population is just over 40%.
The most widely used drugs in Venezuela are Sputnik V (Russia) and that of the pharmaceutical company Sinopharm (China).
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