According to the epidemiological report of the Ministry of Health, this Wednesday, June 22, Bolivia reported 906 new cases of covid-19. The fifth wave is gaining more and more strength.
Santa Cruz with 509 infections, Cochabamba with 184, Chuquisaca with 128 and La Paz with 69 are the regions that have registered the most cases in just one day. In the rest of the departments, the cases do not reach 10.
That is why the health authorities insist on immunization as a strategy to mitigate the effects of the virusin cases of contagion.
To date, the country 14.1 million vaccines have been applied; 6.2 million with the first dose, 5.0 million with the second, 1.6 million with the first booster (third) and 233,087 with the fourth dose. The single dose was administered to 998,652 people.
From the Santa Cruz Mayor’s Office they reported that there are fixed diagnostic points in all health networks, as well as anticovid vaccination posts.
The manager of Epidemiology of the Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) in Santa Cruz, Carlos Hurtado, indicated that the department of Santa Cruz is in a phase of medium transmission with a tendency to increase cases.
Based on Monday’s daily report, Hurtado pointed out that For more than three months, the region did not reach 370 infections in a single day, the same as the positivity rate, which rose to 13%.