A girl wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the new coronavirus places into her bag a pack-and-go lunch she received from a soup kitchen in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 15, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Members of the Venezuelan Electoral Council, sitting, wear face masks and shields amid the spread of the new coronavirus at a validation center, featuring a drawing of late President Hugo Chavez, to certify the authenticity of voter data in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, July 25, 2020. The legislative election is scheduled for Dec. 6 and thus far the opposition has indicated it will not participate. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A girl floats in a pond formed from water coming from the El Avila mountain in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 19, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Parrots stand in a cage that sits on the hood of an abandoned car at a squatters camp amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A doctor takes the heart rate, blood pressure and blood oxygenation readings of an asymptomatic COVID-19 patient quarantining at a hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, July 24, 2020. The government is offering residents this eight-floor hotel, among other hotels, to quarantine if they are asymptomatic with COVID-19, where doctors check on them and they are fed three free meals every day. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Pedestrians wearing masks to curb the spread of the new coronavirus chat in front of a mural of late President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 12, 2020. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Children wearing protective face masks ride a merry go round in a park in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, July 17, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A woman wears a face mask as she walks along Petare neighborhood after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Caracas, on July 13, 2020. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)





A supporter of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro attends a ceremony to celebrate the Venezuela's Independence Day in front of Venezuelan embassy in Brasilia, Brazil, July 5, 2020. (Photo by Adriano Machado/Reuters)





A street artist spray paints a protective face mask over an old mural featuring a Venezuelan Indigenous man, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, July 18, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a protective face mask walks through a decontamination chamber as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus in the neighborhood of Petare in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A protective face mask adorns a Jesus Christ statue as a reminder for residents to wear masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, in the Petare neighborhod in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, July 17, 2020. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





An asymptomatic COVID-19 patient peers from the door of her hotel room as doctors do their daily rounds to check on patients like her quarantining here in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, July 24, 2020. The government is offering residents this eight-floor hotel, among other hotels, to quarantine if they are asymptomatic with COVID-19, where doctors check on them and they are fed three free meals every day. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





A man wearing a face mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic passes a mural of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Analysts say that in recent months the pandemic has helped suck away the opposition’s scanty momentum and bolster Maduro’s already strong hand. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Members of the Bolivarian National Guarde explain proper mask use to non-compliant pedestrians and peddlers on a street of the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, amid efforts to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





An elderly woman wearing a protective face mask walks on a street in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, July 17, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





People ride their bikes amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in the Los Chorros neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 12, 2020. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A store employee measures the woman body temperature of a shopper she can enter as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, July 25, 2020. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A man, wearing a protective face mask, kisses his girlfriend's hand on Sabana Grande boulevard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 1, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





Residents, wearing protective face masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, take shelter from the rain in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)