La Paz, 13 Feb. Bolivia reported a 35% drop in covid-19 cases on Monday over the past seven days and added the seventh week of reduction in infections after the sixth wave that emerged last December.
During a media report, Health Minister Jeyson Auza mentioned that last week there were 1,417 cases, which is 774 less than the same previous period, which “represents a decrease of 35 %”.
“Bolivia records its seventh consecutive week of declining cases,” he noted.
The sixth wave of infections occurred in December and peaked in the third week of the month with more than 16,000 infections reported before entering a de-escalation phase.
Auza mentioned that the death rate during the sixth peak remained controlled at 0.1%.
Since the start of vaccination in January 2021, Bolivia has managed to apply more than 15.7 million vaccines divided between the first, second and third doses, in addition to the annual and one-time vaccination components for people over 5 years, which form a vaccinable population of more than 10.2 million.
Since the arrival of the pandemic in the country, in March 2020, there have been at least 22,355 deaths and 1,191,090 confirmed cases of the disease, of which 16,106 belong to patients with the active disease.
The state authority also referred to the 264 monkeypox cases recorded nationwide, among which there is only one patient with the active disease while the others are cured.
Likewise, of the 272 cases of whooping cough that occurred in the departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, La Paz and Oruro, there are three deaths, six patients with active disease and 263 cured.
Finally, regarding the dengue epidemic due to the rainy season in the country, the authorities have quantified 5,549 cases with 18 deaths, the majority in the department of Santa Cruz (4,106).