Bolivia registers the record number of 77,238 cases in the second week of 2022

Bolivia registered the record number of 77,238 new infections of COVID-19 in the second week of 2022, an increase of 27%, the highest report since the first cases were detected in the country in March 2020, official sources reported this Monday.

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When presenting the second epidemiological report this year, the Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza, pointed out that “despite the high number of cases” the fatality rate was 0.6%, the “lowest in all history of the pandemic.”

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In this sense, Auza stressed that the progress of the vaccination plan has prevented an increase in deaths from the coronavirus and that the country has already exceeded “11 million doses applied.”

To date, “11,065,721 doses have been applied (…) in the first two weeks of 2022 we reached 1,237,200 doses applied, reaching a coverage of 74.6% in the first dose for those over 18 years of age and with second to 61.8% with complete scheme”, he explained.

The Government established from January 1 the requirement of the vaccination card for various procedures and entry to public and private places, a measure that in the face of protests from various sectors and the crowds at the vaccination points was postponed for the next day 26.

Auza made a call this Monday to those who oppose the requirement of the vaccination card and anti-vaccine groups that “these are not moments of confrontation” and invited them to sit down with the Government to be able to “explain the benefits of the vaccine” as the “reduction” of lethality from “6.2 to 0.6 percent”.

Regarding the requests of some mayors to apply new forties or confinements, the minister pointed out that the Government is working on the “acceleration of the vaccination plan” to “continue in the logic” of the economic reactivation of the country.

“We never want to be forced to have to apply a quarantine again,” for that “we need our entire population to be vaccinated,” he said.

“Rather than appealing to a quarantine or a restriction, we want to appeal to the conscience of our population to achieve a level of vaccination that protects our people,” he added.

Minister Auza also announced that in the coming months Bolivia will receive one million Janssen vaccines from Johnson & Johnson through the Covax mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Bolivia has received a total of 22.5 million vaccines since the immunization plan began in January 2021, which already includes those over 5 years of age, out of a “vaccinable” population of some 10.2 million people. the nearly 11 and a half million inhabitants of the country.

In the nine regions of the country, the report details that Santa Cruz registered 23,131 new cases, 30% nationwide, followed by Cochabamba with 13,986, La Paz with 10,160, Tarija with 9,427, Chuquisaca with 8,670, Beni with 2,070, Pando with 505 , Oruro with 5,632 and Potosí with 3,657.

Auza affirmed that new infections have been contained in Santa Cruz, the region hardest hit by the pandemic, thanks to the measures applied by the Government and its portfolio in recent days.

Bolivia accumulates 711,299 positive cases and 20,103 deaths since March 2020.

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