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La Paz, Jan 4 (EFE) .- Bolivia registered 7,371 new infections and 30 deaths due to covid-19, which raised to 622,312 the positives and to 19,763 the deaths accumulated since March 2020, when the first cases of the disease in the country.
The eastern region of Santa Cruz, the largest and hardest hit by the pandemic, was the one that registered the most new cases, 5,496, followed by the central Cochabamba with 584, the southern Tarija with 549 and Chuquisaca with 375, according to the latter. report of the Bolivian Ministry of Health.
In the other five Bolivian departments, the numbers of new infections ranged between 24 and 141, the report indicates.
Currently active cases are 68,172 and the accumulated number of recovered patients is 534,377, it adds.
According to health authorities, the fatality rate in this fourth wave, which began in October, changed once more from 0.8 to 0.7%.
The report also details that so far 4,760,233 people have received the first dose of anticovid vaccines, another 3,660,569 the second and 992,524 were immunized with single-dose drugs.
In addition, 567,396 people over 18 years of age and people with underlying diseases have received third doses of vaccines as a booster.
According to the report, 533,536 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years received first doses and 330,550 completed the vaccination schedule, while 237,780 children aged 5 to 11 years have been immunized with first doses and 6,077 with second.
Immunization began in Bolivia at the end of January in stages, including from December to minors between the ages of 5 and 11, with a “vaccinable” population estimated at regarding 10.2 million of the nearly 11 and a half million inhabitants it has. the country.
In the last week of 2021, infections soared and there were days in which 7,000 new cases were exceeded, record figures in the entire pandemic, before which the Bolivian Executive declared a health emergency and several sub-national governments suspended the holidays for the New Year.
The requirement from this week for the vaccination card or a negative PCR test to enter public places or travel has made people go en masse to be immunized in recent days.
59.6% of the vaccinable population in Bolivia has the complete vaccination scheme once morest covid-19, according to the Government.
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