In the three previous days, Bolivia surpassed the daily record of positive cases registered in the third wave, which was 3,839 last June.
Bolivia has not yet identified the Omicron variant of covid-19, one of the most contagious, despite the rise in new cases that has led this week to break the national registries during three consecutive days in the middle of the fourth epidemiological wave.
Of all the analyzes carried out, “the presence of the Omicron variant could not be detected, we continue in your search”, Said the Minister of Health, Jeyso Auza, during a press conference this Friday.
A recent report from the National Institute of Health Laboratories (Inlasa), based on sample collection Of the nine departments of the country and then a final selection, it was able to establish that “there is a presence and an increase corresponding to the Delta variant” or from India, said Auza.
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Too “To a lesser extent” the circulation of the MU and Lambda strains while it has not yet been possible to establish a relationship between the remarkable increase in cases with the presence of the Omicron variant.
However, “we cannot rule out the presence of the Omicron variant”, “we are in search”, said the minister that pThe collaboration of the departmental health services in that task.
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Something that was overcome first on Tuesday of this week when 4,934 new infections were reached, then on Wednesday when 6,149 were reported and finally with the 7,980 new cases this Thursday.
“We want to call the Bolivian people to reflection, today more than ever we must take extreme measures of biosecurity, today more than ever we must go to the vaccination centers”, Was the request of the Minister of Health.
The level of contagion from this escalation has mainly affected the department of Santa Cruz, the epicenter of the pandemic since its arrival in the country in March last year.
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The vaccination process has managed to apply since the end of January 9.7 million vaccines between first and second doses, booster inoculations and single doses, in different proportions to a vaccinable population of 10.2 million older than 5 years.
The country accumulates 19,680 deaths and 599,753 confirmed cases of the disease and presents 53,231 patients with active disease. (I)
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