The vice president of Bolivia refuses to be vaccinated against the coronavirus and unleashes a political storm

Bolivian Vice President David Choquehuanca was criticized for his alleged refusal to be vaccinated against the coronavirus COVID-19 and it has put the government in trouble, which has just approved a decree that obliges Bolivians to carry a health pass.

Choquehuanca He has not confirmed if he received the vaccine and has kept the secret on the subject unlike the president Luis Arce, who has already received the doses and constantly calls his compatriots to get immunized.

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The opponents have ordered the vice president to show his vaccination certificate since it does not appear in the records of the Ministry of Health.

Opposition deputy Alejandro Reyes publicly suggested that Choquehuanca should not enter his office as president of the Legislative Assembly if he does not have a health pass or it should present recent negative evidence as mandated by a decree that goes into effect on January 1. “We will see what will be the solution that Mr.”Reyes told reporters.

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For his part, the official senator Félix Ajpi said that the vice president “It is your right (if you do not want to be vaccinated), but you have the obligation to take PCR tests at least twice a week to go to public places… In this there is no discussion, the rules are for everyone and everyone must comply with them “.

Although at the beginning of the campaign Arce said vaccination was not mandatory, last week approved a health pass showing recent immunization or PCR tests to attend public and private places.

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The government approved the application of vaccines from the age of 5 but the immunization campaign is progressing slowly and is below 60% of the target population, according to the Ministry of Health.

Bolivia received donations from several countries, including a one million lot of the first AstraZeneca vaccine produced in Latin America (by Argentina and Mexico) that Argentina donated last week.

“17.5 million vaccines have arrived and more donations are expected, which will bring us to 22 million”, twice the Bolivian population, said the Vice Minister of Health, Alejandra Hidalgo. One of the most widely used vaccines is the Chinese Sinopharm, but it is also applied to Sputnik V, Pfizer and Janssen from Johnson & Johnson.

Authorities are redoubling efforts to motivate people to get vaccinated and guarantee their return to classrooms in February and attribute the rejection to religious beliefs.

With 11.6 million inhabitants, Bolivia has accumulated more than 577,800 infections and 19,554 deaths since the pandemic began, according to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Science and Systems Engineering. The health authorities have not confirmed the presence of the omicron variant in the country.

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