From this January 1, the vaccination card or a negative PCR test with 48 hours old will be required in Bolivia to enter public places.
Bolivia began this 2022 by putting into effect the Government’s determination to require the vaccination card against COVID-19 to enter public and private places in the face of the rise of infections in this fourth wave of the disease.
Banks, telephone entities, shopping centers, restaurants, supermarkets, bus terminals and airports began to ask the population to show their vaccination card that certifies that they received the vaccine against covid-19 to allow their entry.
Although for now the control is not so rigorous because it is the first day, Several of the locals complied with this provision this Saturday, which is a holiday.
The determination of the Government of Luis Arce indicates that from this January 1 The vaccination card or a negative PCR test with 48 hours old will be required to enter public places, private and for travel.
This rule prompted the population that had not yet been immunized to go to the vaccination points, generating long lines this week, for example in the central axis, that is, La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, the latter the one most affected by the pandemic. .
The vaccination certificate It is downloaded through an application or through the page of the Ministry of Health; This document can be shown through a QR code on the cell phone or it can also be printed.
For this reason, many enterprises offered the service of printing and laminating this document.
Sectors oppose
The requirement of the license has generated the rejection of anti-vaccine sectors and evangelical churches Well, in his opinion, It is an “attack against the freedom and rights of the people” so they decided not to abide by it.
Days ago, the Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza, He maintained that if they do not want to be vaccinated they can present a negative PCR test for admission and stressed that vaccination in the country is voluntary.
Another sector that is opposed is the Federation of Peasants of La Paz that requested the elimination of this norm since, it says, it cannot “impose” the population to be vaccinated.
Bolivia is experiencing the fourth wave of covid-19 infections with an “explosion” of cases that registered more than 7,000 daily infections, a record number in the country in the entire pandemic.
This situation generated concern and the Government declared a health emergency due to the increase in cases.
The country accumulates 607,481 infections and 19,711 deaths from covid-19, since the first cases were registered in March 2020. So far, more than 9.8 million doses have been applied between first, second and booster doses in the country and the population over 5 years of age can access it.
The country uses Sinopharm and Sputnik V vaccines, which have been purchased by the Government, and those from AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Janssen, donated to the country through the Covax mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO).
This Saturday, a batch of 1.9 million Modern doses for the booster vaccines arrived in the country, which were donated by Spain and Germany. (I)
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