Bolivia registers a new daily record with 11,190 coronavirus infections

Bolivia this Friday he again beat his daily record of infections of the covid-19 with 11,190 new cases of the disease, the majority in the eastern region of Santa Cruz, the worst hit by the pandemic in the country, which is going through a fourth wave.

The report released by the Ministry of Health details that on this day there were also 45 deaths due to the disease, which brought the accumulated deaths since March 2020 to 19,933, while the total number of infections is 664,009.

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Santa Cruz reported 5,552 new infections, followed by Cochabamba that registered 1,360, Chuquisaca with 1,074, Tarija with 993 and La Paz with 811, while in the other four regions, the figures varied between 42 and 538, the report indicates.

Currently active cases are 100,147 and the accumulated number of recovered patients is 543,929, it adds.

According to health authorities, the fatality rate in this fourth wave is 0.7%.

The report also details that so far 5,120,034 people have received the first dose of anticovid vaccines, another 3,782,436 the second and 992,630 were immunized with single-dose drugs.

In addition, 634,244 people over 18 years of age and people with underlying diseases have received third doses of vaccines as a booster.

According to the report, 575,473 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years received first doses and 353,958 completed the vaccination schedule, while 325,114 children aged 5 to 11 years have been immunized with first doses and 42,442 with second.

Immunization began in Bolivia at the end of January 2021 in stages, including from December to children between 5 and 11 years of age, with a “vaccinable” population estimated at about 10.2 million people out of about 11 and a half million inhabitants. that the country has.

The contagions began to skyrocket in the last weeks of 2021, before which the Bolivian Executive declared a health emergency and the main cities suspended the New Year holidays.

Officially the circulation of omicron has not been confirmed in Bolivia, despite the fact that cases with this new variant have already been detected in border countries.

The requirement from this week for the vaccination card or a negative PCR test to enter public places or travel has made people go en masse to be immunized in recent days.

Given this, the Government of Luis Arce decided to suspend this measure until next January 26 to decongest the immunization centers and prevent agglomerations from being generated.

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