reported<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe laboratory, located in the facilities of the Jos\u00e9 Gregorio Hern\u00e1ndez National Center for Medical Genetics, will count on the contribution in various areas by Cuban health cooperators, who make up the island\u2019s medical brigades in that country.<\/p>\n
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The new center includes the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research, the Rafael Rangel National Institute of Hygiene, the Molecular Virology Laboratory and the Virus Biology Laboratory, as part of the network enabled in Venezuela for the detection of SARS-CoV-2.<\/p>\n
Venezuelan Minister of Science and Technology Gabriela Jim\u00e9nez, Minister of Health Carlos Alvarado, the head of the office of attention to the Cuban Social Missions, Julio C\u00e9sar Garc\u00eda, as well as the island\u2019s ambassador, Dagoberto Rodr\u00edguez, were present at the inauguration of the center.<\/p>\n
Venezuela has confirmed more than 52,000 cases of coronavirus and 420 deaths, significant figures, although its situation is not one of the most critical in the American continent. However, the government of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro decreed a radical social and collective quarantine throughout the territory a week ago, in order to contain the spread of the epidemic.<\/p>\n
The president has opted for the seven plus seven (7+7) method, which includes a week of strict security measures, including the limitation of movements and the closure of shops, and another week of flexibility to reactivate economic activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the support of Cuban specialists, the Venezuelan health authorities inaugurated this Saturday a new molecular biology laboratory that will allow analyzing around a thousand daily tests to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a crucial contribution amid the rise in positive cases in the South American nation. With almost 10,000 active and more than a thousand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":227183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13902],"tags":[28545,18854,18421],"ppma_author":[33546,8689],"class_list":["post-227179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","tag-coronavirus","tag-cuba-and-venezuela","tag-cuban-doctors-in-venezuela"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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