bolivia registered a slight increase in infections by Covid-19 this Wednesday, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Sports, which shows that this Thursday 5,795 nasal antigen tests were carried out, of which 297 gave positive results. In addition, that 1,782 people recovered from the disease.
Santa Cruz concentrates the largest number of new infected, with 177. Cochabamba is with 26, La Paz with 61, Beni with 12, Chuquisaca with five, Tarija and Potosí with seven and Oruro with two. Pando did not report infections.
The report issued by the National Directorate of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health and Sports, establishes that the national accumulated number of patients recovered until this day amounted to 823,920. While the total number of confirmed cases reached 900,557, of which 55,153 remain active.
In addition, this dayreported the death of one person from complications of the virus. In this way, the lethality in this fourth wave remains at 0.7%, less than in the third (2.5%), second (2.7%) and first (6.2%).
Likewise, the report of the Ministry of Health indicates that to date sand 13,021,840 vaccines were applied throughout the territory national. The doses used are from Sputnik V, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Pfizer, Janssen and Moderna vaccines.