October 16, 2022, 4:00 AM
October 16, 2022, 4:00 AM
The coronavirus has decreased markedly in recent times and, although cases are fewat least in yesterday’s report from the Departmental Health Service (Headquarters), all were restricted to the Santa Cruz capital.
The daily statistics recorded 13 cases, with 2% positivity, below the number of recovered, which reached 24 patients.
Likewise, the hospital rooms are being cleared of Covid-19 cases. Until yesterday there were five people in the intermediate care rooms (ICU), one in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and this only patient connected to a respirator.
So far this weekend, those vaccinated against the coronavirus only reached 211 in the entire department, a low figure, according to the Headquarters because they were days of relaxation in the population.
The Departmental Secretary of Health, Edil Toledo, highlighted what is this fifth wave de-escalation it is part of the prevention policies implemented by Headquarters, among these he mentioned mass vaccination, with Santa Cruz being the department that has the first place in immunization in the country.
Toledo advised the population to continue using biosecurity measures because the virus continues in the population.
According to data from the Ministry of Health and Sports, until the beginning of this weekend More than 15 million immunizers have already been applied in the countryfrom the first to the fourth dose, in addition to single doses in all age groups.
Of this total, a good part benefited the elderly, children, adolescents, health personnel and pregnant women, in whom the authorities placed special emphasis. However, the total number of vaccines purchased by the central government level exceeds 23.8 million doses.
The official report of cases of monkeypox in Bolivia states that until yesterday there were 78 active patients and 156 recovered. During this day two infected people appeared, so the accumulated exceeds 234 cases.
The epidemiological report that monitors the entire country established that in La Paz there were seven positive cases, 152 discarded; Oruro had a positive case, 62 discarded; while of the seven suspected cases, one tested positive in Potosí.
In Cochabamba, 123 tested negative and 13 active; 14 negatives in Chuquisaca, one asset. In the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 302 were discarded and there are 211 assets. The numbers were lower in the other departments.
