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The director of the Expanded Program on Immunization (PAI), Max Enríquez, said on Tuesday that vaccination against the coronavirus was affected in Santa Cruz and Potosí due to the days of unemployment and blockade, which caused immunization to have lowered its coverage in those regions.
“These days of unemployment in some cities prevent the population from going to look for a health center, because they cannot move for different reasons that are preventing their wandering, that has determined that there is a drop in vaccination coverage,” said Enríquez to the state channel Bolivia TV.
In both departments, protests continue in rejection of Law 1386 and other regulations that, according to the mobilized groups, were not socialized.
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The official said that the anticovid vaccination decreased to an average of 20,000 doses per day, when the usual average reached 40,000 daily doses.
“We are being harmed, affected because work is interrupted, this is observed at the vaccination points, (people) are being blocked and cannot reach the vaccination centers,” he said.
Enríquez added that the Ministry of Health will assume other strategies, such as the installation of health fairs in different parts of the country, which already began on Monday in Uyuni, and which will go to other regions such as Yacuiba and others where vaccination coverage is low.
“The health fairs are comprehensive, with all the ministerial programs the rakes and vaccinations are carried out house to house,” said the director.
