This content was published on 11 July 2022 – 13:47
La Paz, Jul 11 (EFE) .- Bolivia reported this Monday an increase of 65% in cases of covid-19 in the last week, amid criticism from the Government of some leaders of the health sector who had called a indefinite unemployment at a time when the country is going through the fifth wave of the pandemic.
The Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza, delivered at a press conference the 27th epidemiological report on the situation of the pandemic in the country, in which he indicated that 12 deaths and 14,742 new infections were registered in the last seven days.
“It is the ninth consecutive week of rise in cases of covid-19 and for the first time since last February, Bolivia exceeds more than 10,000 weekly infections,” the official said.
Auza said that of the twelve deceased, seven “had no vaccination record at all”, for which he reiterated to local authorities and the population to reinforce immunization and to apply booster doses against covid-19.
Likewise, the minister stressed that the “coverage” of vaccination with the first dose has reached 67% and the second to 55.8% of those over 5 years of age who are part of the 10.2 million people that make up the population. vaccinable.
Of the nine departments Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, La Paz and Chuquisaca account for 90% of the new cases in the last week.
MEDICAL STOP
Minister Auza also referred to the call for a medical strike by some leaders in the sector and said that it is “an attack on the life and health of the Bolivian people.”
“Stopping medical services for a particular case is reckless” and demanded the “leadership leadership to act responsibly” in the face of the fifth wave that the country is going through.
This weekend the president of the Bolivian Medical College, Luis Larrea, had been arrested after a stepbrother’s complaint for the death of his father in 2021.
In this sense, the sector had called for an indefinite general strike since Monday, but after Larrea was released, the protest measure was suspended.
Bolivia has accumulated 945,618 cases of covid-19 and 21,969 deaths since the first infections were reported in March 2020, the fatality rate remains at 0.1%. EFE
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