Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido tests positive for COVID-19

On Sunday, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido announced that he tested positive for the coronavirus, affirming that he has mild symptoms.

Guaido asserted on his Twitter account that he is in isolation, showing concern about the number of infections in the country.

“I want to express my solidarity with the thousands of Venezuelans suffering during the pandemic,” he wrote on Twitter. “Today we all have a relative or acquaintance affected by COVID-19.”

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Many countries have backed the opposition leader as interim president of Venezuela following Maduro’s re-election in 2018 in a vote Western governments called a sham.

In the same context, Venezuela has received 700,000 doses, of which 500,000 were donated by China’s Sinopharm and the rest are Russia’s Sputnik V.

Opposition leaders are separately negotiating to buy vaccines via the COVAX program using funds frozen in the United States.

Venezuela’s official figures as of Saturday reported 155,663 cases of COVID-19 and 1,555 deaths, though opposition critics say the actual figure is likely higher due to limited testing.