Bolivia registered this Saturday, January 30, 2021, a total of 2,005 new contagion from covid-19 and 51 dead, on the same day that the immunization of health personnel who are on the front line reached two more regions of the country, after the arrival of the first batch of vaccinations last Thursday.
According to the report of the Ministry of Health, deaths increase to 10,330 and cases now total 215,397 since the first cases were detected in March 2020. contagion from coronavirus in the country.
The regions most affected by the pandemic are Santa Cruz, with 790 new infections; Peace, with 611, and Cochabamba, with 144.
The three departments are the most populated in Bolivia, while the new positive cases in the other six regions range between 4 and 152, according to the official report.
The latest report from Ministry of Health, released this Friday, accounts for 53 new deaths and 2,666 contagion newspapers.
The figures They fell slightly this Saturday compared to the previous day when 53 deaths and 2,666 infections were reported.
This Friday started in Bolivia the vaccination to healthcare personnel after the arrival of a first batch of 20,000 dose initials of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V.
In addition, this Saturday the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, announced that the country will acquire one million vaccines from the Covax of the World Health Organization, without giving more details about it.
The HIM-HER-IT celebrated the announcement of Arce and highlighted that Bolivia “has been selected to participate in the first round of vaccine distribution through the Covax mechanism.”
In a statement published this Saturday night, the HIM-HER-IT explained that the “delivery of almost a million vaccines as donation, 92,430 doses of Pfizer and 900,000 doses of AstraZeneca, is part of the fulfillment of the agreement of Covax to ensure the availability and access to vaccines “, which is expected to cover up to” 20% of the Bolivian population. “
Bolivia It has been in a second wave of infections of the new coronavirus for a few weeks with numbers that exceed 2,000 cases per day, something that was not registered since July and August of last year.
At the moment, some regions like Peace have resumed some measures such as capacity control, suspension of activities such as football matches, while the Bolivian government It has ruled out returning to the rigid quarantine that was applied last year, although it has adopted some provisions such as teleworking.
The Government plans to immunize 7.2 million Bolivians out of a population of about 11 million, with the purchase of more than 15 million vaccines.
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