La Paz, March 5 Bolivia adds 351 cases of covid-19, two deaths and 2,006 recovered patients in this de-escalation of the fourth wave of the pandemic in the country, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Health. The departments that registered the highest number of new infections are the eastern Santa Cruz, the hardest hit by the pandemic, with 160 cases, followed by La Paz with 75 and the central Cochabamba with 63. The other six departments of the country registered fewer cases than They range from 22 to 3 new infections, according to the count With this latest report, Bolivia accumulates 894,551 cases of covid-19 and 21,455 deaths, since the first cases were reported in March 2020. In addition, there are already 795,820 recovered patients and 77,276 cases They are still active and the case fatality rate for this wave is 0.7%, the lowest of the four, the bulletin notes. Bolivia has registered six consecutive weeks of decrease in cases after the most critical stage of the fourth wave, between the end of December and the beginning of January, with days in which infections exceeded 14,000. Meanwhile, the vaccination plan continues in the country in which a total of approximately 12.6 million doses of the vaccine against covid-19 have already been applied. 5,963,746 first doses, 4,652,636 second doses, 1,076,131 third doses have already been applied, while 994,961 vaccines that require only one dose were applied. In Bolivia, the vaccine for covid-19 is applied to the vaccinable population over 5 years of age, about 10.7 million people. The Ministry of Health recommended that the population not relax biosecurity measures as they are in a time of de-escalation and warned that the contagion resulting from the Carnival celebrations, which took place last week, will be evident in two weeks. EFE ysm/jac
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