Venezuela to Close Pumps as Gas Runs Short, Viral Outbreak Grows
- Only health, food suppliers and officials can fill up tanks
- Measure already in place in several states earlier this week
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Venezuela’s government is shutting fuel stations nationwide to ration dwindling gasoline inventories as a quarantine designed to stop the coronavirus paralyzes the country, seven people said.
Just a few dozen of Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s 1,800 gas stations across the country will remain open and operated by the nation’s armed forces to allow medical, food and utilities’ transportation to fill up, said the people, who asked not to be named as the plan is still private.