Venezuela’s children are at risk as the country faces an alarmingly low rate of vaccination for potentially fatal diseases, a problem that is affecting Venezuela and other countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. See Video -> CGTN

Traducción de cortesía -> Los niños de Venezuela están en riesgo ya que el país enfrenta una tasa de vacunación alarmantemente baja para enfermedades potencialmente mortales, un problema que está afectando a Venezuela y otros países de América Latina y el Caribe.

Allies of Guaido, who is recognized by the United States as the country’s legitimate leader, have opened talks with the government of President Nicolas Maduro to use part of the frozen funds to finance Venezuela’s participation in COVAX. Moving those funds generally requires applying for a license from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which took control of some $342 million in 2019 as part of a sanctions program meant to force Maduro from power. By by Vivian Sequera and Brian Ellsworth. Full Text -> Reuters

Venezuela could begin receiving coronavirus vaccines via the global COVAX program in May, an advisor to opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Tuesday, adding that the timing will depend on when the U.S. Treasury approves funding for the inoculations. Allies of Guaido, who is recognized by the United States as the country’s legitimate leader, have opened talks with the government of President Nicolas Maduro to use part of the frozen funds to finance Venezuela’s participation in COVAX. Full Text -> NationalPost

In Chavista Venezuela, the first to receive the coronavirus vaccine are not necessarily older adults or patients at risk or health professionals, but Chavista officials, members of the public force and Cuban missions. This information was known through a twitter published by Alfonso Campos Jessurun, deputy of the Chavista National Assembly, an article by Prensa Latina (the Cuban news agency) and the statements of Maduro himself, in his last speeches. By Alfredo Michelena

CARICOM Chairman Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says anyone who needs the COVID-19 vaccine, including Venezuelan migrants, will receive it, in order to curb the spread of the virus. Speaking at a COVID-19 media briefing with Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today, Dr Rowley said there would be no discrimination in the administering of the vaccine. Full Text -> LoopsNews

Maduro will prioritize the vaccination of the military and the political elite The dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, announced that the military and politicians of the regime will have priority when it comes to being vaccinated against COVID-19 in Venezuela. Among the priority sectors are also “the 14,000 house-to-house visiting brigades“- supporters of the regime that, says Maduro, have monitored the infections-, the staff of”social work who is permanently visiting homes, attending to needs “and the”security personnel who walks in the streets protecting people, “he said. Full Text -> Explica

Purchasing vaccines through the private sector is “not a bad idea in the midst of our battle against sanctions,” Maduro said in a news conference Wednesday, saying medical and security personnel as well as “street facing” politicians would be among the first to be inoculated. About 100,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik-V vaccine arrived in Caracas on Saturday, as part of a deal for 10 million doses set to arrive within the first months of the year for which the country paid $200 million, Maduro said Wednesday. By Alex Vasquez and Patricia Laya, Full Text -> BNNBloomberg

In a tweet, President Nicolas Maduro said medical and health personnel would be the first to receive the vaccine, “given their exposure to COVID-19.” The vaccines arrived at Caracas’ international airport on a special flight from Moscow on Conviasa airlines, Venezuela’s state carrier, according to Reuters witnesses and images shown by state television VTV. by Sarah Kinosian. Full Text -> Reuters

Venezuela’s government and opposition are in talks with the Pan-American Health Organization to buy vaccines to inoculate 6 million people against Covid-19, according to three people with direct knowledge of the talks.About 1.4 million of those are from AstraZeneca Plc and will come from the World Health Organization-backed Covax initiative, the people said.The vaccines would be available from March, and would be paid for with offshore funds frozen by U.S. sanctions, which can’t be unblocked without the backing of the opposition. While the source of the remaining vaccines is yet to be determined, the total cost for the 12 million doses, enough to vaccinate 6 million Venezuelans, is approximately $120 million, according to two of the people. Full Text-> TheHindustanTimes

Nicolás Maduro reported during a press conference that the militants of the Chavista party “We are Venezuela” will be among the first groups to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, with the Russian Sputnik-V vaccine, so that they can go out and proselytize “house to house” against the blockade and sanctions “. By OnVenezuela