Iván Duque Márquez , president of Colombia , declared the frontier with Venezuela would be closed as of March 14 , 2020 , while president Nicolás Maduro announced an emergency in the healthcare of Venezuela on March 12 , and all flights coming from Europe and Colombia would be canceled for over 4 weeks .
On 13 March , the coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Venezuela when its first two cases in the state of Miranda were announced by the Venezuelan government .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Venezuela