Venezuela is a wellbeing 'delayed bomb,' Colombian president says

Colombia's President Ivan Duque talks during a meeting with Reuters, in the midst of the flare-up of the coronavirus sickness (COVID-19), in Bogota, Colombia Jun 26, 2020. 

 Colombian President Ivan Duque on Friday considered Venezuela a general wellbeing "delayed bomb," and said the absence of solid data about the status of its neighbor's coronavirus flare-up was a concern as his organization attempts to control its own contaminations.

Colombia has for some time been the top goal for Venezuelans escaping long periods of social and financial change in their nation of origin.

Inquired as to whether he was stressed over Colombia's long fringes with Venezuela and Brazil as a conductor for the infection, despite the fact that they are formally shut, Duque disclosed to Reuters he was and said the issue with Venezuela was an absence of data.

"On account of Venezuela the data is non-existent," Duque said in a meeting. "There's bad medical clinic limit or great epidemiological limit, for quite a while they haven't had genuine immunization programs."

"I think Venezuela is a delayed bomb from the general wellbeing perspective."

Venezuela has recognized only 4,600 coronavirus cases and 39 passings, while Colombia has revealed around 80,600 affirmed cases and in excess of 2,600 passings.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has demanded his nation has dealt with the flare-up superior to other Latin American countries and says most cases can be followed to vagrants coming back from Colombia and Brazil.

Venezuelan specialists, be that as it may, have discredited inadequate emergency clinic beds and supplies, constrained utilization of face veils out in the open spaces, and the utilization of low-spending lodgings to isolate patients.

Duque's administration doesn't perceive Maduro as his nation's legitimate pioneer and normally blames him for holding wrongdoing posses and radical revolutionaries.

Colombia a month ago sent more troopers to its outskirt with Brazil to stop casual intersections, after scantily populated Amazonas territory saw a spike in cases.

Brazil has the world's second most noteworthy number of coronavirus cases after the United States, enlisting more than 1.2 million cases and almost 55,000 passings. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has minimized the reality of the pandemic.

Duque said interestingly with Venezuela, Brazil and its authorities are putting forth attempts to control the infection, in any case.

"It should likewise be accentuated that (Brazil) has substantially more reliable, increasingly sound foundations," he said.

"Likewise territorially we've seen state governors are attempting to accomplish more tests, placing in measures, there is a planned exertion with national specialists."

Because of a financial and social lockdown set up in late March, Colombia's disease levels are "substantially more a circle" than a spike, Duque said.

New cases are packed in a bunch of regions and passings in those more than 60 years of age, he said.

The nation, which has helped its number of escalated care units by 17% since the beginning of the pandemic, is attempting to build the number of ventilators too.

"Colombia ought to draw near to 10,000 ventilators, which will mean a powerful limit in escalated care units," he said.

What could be compared to 11.3% of total national output is attempting to battle the coronavirus, Duque said.

Practically 90% of the nation's monetary movement was "currently recuperation," he fought.

The fund service has said the economy will contract 5.5% this year.