This Monday, Bolivia again registered a slight increase in infections by Covid, according to the Ministry report of Health and Sports, which reports that of 5,234 nasal antigen tests, 212 gave positive results, more than yesterday, when there were only 90 cases. With these new records, the figure of 900 thousand accumulated patients is bordered.
The largest amount of the new infections are in Santa Cruz, which reported 111, It is followed by Cochabamba with 69, La Paz with 11, Chuquisaca with 10, Tarija with seven, Potosí with two, Oruro and Beni with one. Pando did not register infected.
In this way, the accumulated number of positive cases by Covid, since the pandemic began in March 2020, reached 899,999, of which 58,039 remain active. While the number of recovered rose to 820,477, after 1,618 patients overcame the disease this Monday.
The National Directorate of Epidemiology did not regret deaths from complications of the virus and the total number of deaths remains at 21,483. Thus, the lethality in this fourth wave continues at 0.7%, less than in the third (2.5%), second (2.7%) and first (6.2%).
In addition, the Ministry of Health and Sports indicated that To date, 12,986,554 vaccines have been applied from Sputnik V, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Pfizer and Janssen to the different age groups throughout the national territory.