Caracas.- The official mayor of the Venezuelan municipality Sucre, in the central state of Yaracuy, marked the houses of covid-19 patients in his municipality with a red circle, which, according to the NGO Fundaredes, “stigmatizes” those who suffer from the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
In the video, broadcast on social networks, you can see a man who they identify as Adrián Duque, mayor of the municipality, pointing to a house in which there is a red circle with the phrase “family in preventive quarantine, visits are not accepted.”
Duque warns, while pointing to the sign surrounded by policemen, that he will do so with all the homes where there is a patient with covid-19.
“Alert, to take care of ourselves for our health, conscience is the best vaccine for all,” says the councilor.
Faced with this video, Fundaredes assured on Twitter that “this type of action is discriminatory, the stigmatization of covid-19 patients is a violation of their rights.”
The measure unleashed criticism from different doctors and the representative of a trade union organization explained to EFE that the decision is “retrograde, fascist” and discriminatory, while recalling that it resembles those taken centuries ago when “someone had died from the plague ».
Venezuela is currently going through a second wave of covid-19, the worst so far, after the arrival in the country of the Brazilian variant of the new coronavirus.
As a consequence, Venezuela experienced the worst of the pandemic last week with 9,468 new infections and 97 deaths from the disease caused by the new coronavirus.