Page Seven / La Paz
Bolivia passed the 12 million doses applied to its population in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic and also reported a decrease in positive cases in the fourth wave of Covid-19.
The Ministry of Health and Sports reported that until Friday, 12,015,161 doses were applied between the first, second, third, single doses, doses to the different age groups of the Sputnik V, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Pfizer and Janssen vaccines throughout the country. National territory.
Of that amount, 5,771,179 health workers, teachers, the elderly, people over 18 years of age and pregnant women received the first dose of the vaccine and 4,339,676 received the second; 994,961 the single dose; 909,345 over 18 years of age and with underlying diseases received the third dose.
The report establishes that 566,937 first doses and 257,151 second doses were applied to children from five to 11 years old, while 694,437 to adolescents from 12 to 17 years old in the first dose and 472,042 in the second.
The total number of vaccines managed and acquired by the national government exceeds 22,505,000 doses, reported the state agency ABI.
Currently, the country is in a de-escalation of positive cases to covid.
The Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) La Paz announced that at the end of February and the beginning of March the department will be in full de-escalation of infections. The Carnival 2022 activities are planned for those dates.
Something similar happens in the world, regarding the de-escalation of positive cases.
According to the Spanish portal ABC, the World Health Organization (WHO) will publish a response plan to covid to stop treating it as a pandemic, as announced by the executive director of the WHO Emergencies Program, Mike Ryan.
The goal is for this step to be “sustained”, in a similar way to what has been done previously with other diseases, the expert has said. Ryan recalled that current vaccines were developed “to protect against serious illness, hospitalization, and death.”
