This Friday, last business day before and enter the frenzy of Carnival, Bolivia registered 511 cases of people who contracted the coronavirus; of that amount, two thirds are in the department of Santa Cruz and the rest of the eight departments distributed the remaining third.
In this way, in Santa Cruz there were 326 cases, 63.8% of the national totalLa Paz 79, Cochabamba 48, Chuquisaca 16, Potosí 13, Tarija nine cases, Beni and Oruro registered eight cases each, Pando closed with four cases.
with that amount Bolivia has already reached 893,048 people who were victims of the pandemic; 21,419 of them died from complications of the disease. Only this Friday five deaths were recorded nationwide.
The Health authorities recommended minimizing the crowds of people on the eve of the carnival festivities, however, the exhortation fell on deaf ears because the festivities intensified from the preparations. In La Paz, the bus terminal is packed with people looking to travel to Oruro, mainly, where the folk entrance will take place on Saturday and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people is expected.
As it happened throughout this week, the number of recovered began to climb In all cities. This Friday in Santa Cruz 544 people were discharged; Curiously, it is a figure close to the number of positive cases in the entire country, 511 in total.
La Paz with 362 cases registered second place, Cochabamba 190, Beni 91, Potosí 74, Tarija 71, Pando 56, Chuquisaca 35 and Oruro closed with seven people recovered. With these data, the national overall of recovered patients reached 1,431. While the national total of recovered in 23 months of pandemic is 786,112 people who defeated the virus.