The de-escalation of cases continues; Today 168 Covid positives were registered in Santa Cruz

The Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) reported that there are eight municipalities in the department that registered a total of 168 positives for Covid-19 during this Saturday, thus demonstrating the imminent de-escalation of fifth wave cases.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra maintains the highest number of cases with 152 positives, equivalent to 90% of the total detected. The rest are distributed in: La Guardia and Montero with 5 cases each, Warnes with 2 and Cabezas, Charagua, Okinawa and Vallegrande with 1 case each respectively.

for this day 547 people managed to win the war against this disease, and only 1 death was reported.

According to data provided by Headquarters, there are 19 people who are still in intensive care units fighting for their lives and five of them are connected to an artificial respirator.

The mass vaccination plan continues its course at all enabled points. For today 549 people received the doses, 59% with the first dose48% with their second dose and 20% with the third dose.

The health authorities urged the population attend the authorized points to complete the immunization scheme It helps reduce the impact of the disease on people.