According to the epidemiological report of the Ministry of Health, on Tuesday, 1,402 new cases of covid-19 were registered in Bolivia. Of which, 684 are in Santa Cruz and 317 in Cochabamba, equivalent to 71% (1,001) of the new infections.
The remaining 29% is divided between the departments of La Paz with 170 new infections, Chuquisaca with 136, Tarija reported 24, Potosí has 17 new cases, Oruro identified 10, Beni another 40, and Pando only 4.
In total, they made 9,354 tests, 1,402 were positive and 7,952 were discarded, which confirms the fifth wave of the virus in the country, with 15% positivity.
This Tuesday session 16,922 anticovid doses were applied Throughout the national territory. Moreover, the Ministry of Health reports that to date 14,197,444 doses were applied between the first, second, third, single dose and fourth dose to the different age groups of the Sputnik V, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Pfizer and Janssen vaccines throughout the national territory.