Bolivia experiences de-escalation with 698 new cases and 25 Covid deaths (Aug. 5)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Bolivia registered Thursday 698 new cases of covid-19 and 25 deaths in the de-escalation of the third wave of infections in the country, amidst announcements to set up vaccination points during the national holidays.

The regions reporting the highest number of new infections are eastern Santa Cruz with 222 cases, La Paz with 175, and central Cochabamba with 106.

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According to the latest report of the Ministry of Health, infections in the other six regions of the country range between 76 and one new cases.

With this latest data, Bolivia accumulates 476,795 covid-19 infections and 17,935 deaths since the first cases were identified in March last year.

The report also reports 1,079 new cases recovered, totaling 412,909 people who have overcome covid-19 in the country.

Currently, there are 45,951 active cases, according to the bulletin.

Bolivia is in de-escalation of the third wave of contagions that began in May, and that reported more than 3,000 cases per day and more than a hundred deaths in the most critical moments.

The Ministry of Health announced that vaccination points would be set up in the central axis of Bolivia, which includes La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz, to operate on Friday, which is a holiday in Bolivia for the 196th anniversary of independence.

So far, 2,923,829 people have been immunized with the vaccine against covid-19 with the first dose, while 1,786,354 have already been vaccinated with the second dose.

Since the end of January, the country has been applying a vaccination plan that began with front-line health personnel and has been progressively extended to include those over 18 years of age and pregnant women since the second week of July.

This immunization program includes Chinese Sinopharm, Russian Sputnik V vaccines, and those obtained through the United Nations Covax mechanism (Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Janssen).