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The National Strategic Council for Health Emergencies determined that the regions must comply with 80% vaccination coverage with the two-dose or single-dose scheme and 50% vaccination with the booster dose to make biosecurity measures more flexible.
This was reported by the Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza, at a press conference.
“The Ministry of Health and Sports, as the governing body of the health system, will analyze the flexibility of the biosafety measures in force in territorial areas that comply with all the detailed parameters (…). As long as the governing body analyzes the aforementioned parameters and regulations are issued that allow their flexibility, no Autonomous Territorial Entity will be able to relax the biosafety measures,” Auza said at a press conference.
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The authority stressed that, although the fatality rate was reduced from 6.2 to 0.7, the false perception that the pandemic is over should not be had.
Likewise, Auza reported that the levels of the early warning index in the regions must be at initial risk, according to the early warning parameter of the Ministry of Health.
“Each of the decisions that are made to protect the health and life of our population must be taken with full responsibility, which is why we are defining these parameters that will allow the Autonomous Territorial Entities, once these parameters have been met, to be able to analyze the possibility of making biosafety measures more flexible,” he said.
On Wednesday, the Sucre Municipal Council approved a law to stop wearing the mask in open public spaces.
The municipalities of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, La Paz and El Alto announced their intention to take a similar measure in the following days.
