On Monday, President Nicolás Maduro reported two other omicron variant cases, so the country´s positive toll jumped to nine.

Assessing Venezuela´s vaccination campaign, maduro said that 87% of Venezuelans has been immunized, being on the way of reaching 90% before December 31.

President Maduro recalled that his country´s health authorities are pretty aware of the spread of omicron variant infections.

The Venezuelan leader urged his people to get vaccinated and took stock of the SARS-CoV-2 infections and Covid-19 cases.

Health Minister Carlos Alvarado, on the other hand, stated that a vaccination campaign with a booster dose will begin from January 3.

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