The Ministry of Health and Sports, in its daily report, reported this Saturday that vaccination against Covid-19 in Bolivia reaches 16 million doses throughout the national territory, between the first, second, third, unit dose and fourth dose, applied to the different age groups. The vaccines applied are Sputnik V, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Pfizer and Janssen.
According to data from said State portfolio, 6.5 million first doses were applied to health professionals, teachers, the elderly, children, adolescents, and people over 18 years of age. and pregnant women. The second dose was applied to 5.3 million people, the single dose to 998,652 people, while the third dose to 2.5 million and the fourth to 696,729 people.
Until now, the total number of vaccines managed and purchased by the national government reaches 23.8 million doses.
recent cases
The epidemiological report on Saturday shows that 154 patients recovered from Covid-19 and were discharged. In addition, 908 tests were carried out, 42 gave positive results and 866 were discarded.
The report issued by the National Epidemiology Directorate, under the Ministry of Health and Sports, establishes that the national cumulative number of recovered patients amounts to 1,176,638.
The registry of recovered patients by department is as follows: 7 in Santa Cruz, 17 in Cochabamba, 127 in La Paz, 3 in Chuquisaca, 0 in Tarija, 0 in Potosí, 0 in Oruro, 0 in Beni and 0 in Pando.
The new infections on Saturday, August 12 are: Santa Cruz with 15 cases, Cochabamba with 3, La Paz with 16, Chuquisaca with 2, Potosí with 1 case, Oruro registered 5, while Tarija, Beni and Pando did not report a single case. case.
The day did not lament the death of people due to the coronavirus and lThe fatality rate in this sixth wave reaches 0.2%.
whooping cough
Regarding coqueluche, the report from the Ministry of Health indicates that the accumulated cases in the country reach 779, of which 487 are patients who are up to 5 years of age and 292 are older than that age range. Likewise, it indicates that 434 infected people recovered, there are 337 active patients, 10 new cases were presented on Saturday and 8 deaths had to be regretted.
Santa Cruz is the department with the highest number of infected, since it registers a total of 730 cases, while Beni has 42, while La Paz, Oruro and Pando each report one case.
Dengue
The accumulated cases of dengue in Bolivia reach 22,896, while the total number of deaths reaches 79.
The department of Santa Cruz is the one with the highest number of infected, with 14,524 cases in total, Tarija reported 2,769 cases, Beni registered 2,026; La Paz, 1,130; Chuquisaca, a total of 1,649 cases; Cochabamba, 645 cases; and Pando, 153 cases.
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