Alert against increase of Covid-19 cases in Bolivia

La Paz, Jan 3 (Prensa Latina) Bolivians continue today to be concerned about the increase in the number of cases of Covid-19, which in the last week of 2023 reached 1,933 infected, equivalent to 128 percent compared to the previous seven days.

January 3, 2024
10:34

“We have had an increase in the number of cases, we have had a total of 1,933 cases in epidemiological week 52, if we compare with epidemiological week 51 we have had 1,86 cases more than the previous week, implying a 128 percent increase”, the Minister of Health, María Renée Castro, assured in a press conference.

She informed that, of the total number of cases, Santa Cruz has the highest number with 888 (45.9 percentage points); Cochabamba 538 (27.8 units out of 100); La Paz, 280 (14.5 percent); Oruro 60 (3.1 units out of 100); Beni, 55 (2.8 percent); Chuquisaca, 41

(2.1 percentage points); Tarija, 40 (2.1 units out of 100) and Potosí, 24 (1.2 percent).

She recalled that in epidemiological week 51 there were two deaths and in week 52 one, all in Santa Cruz.

Castro announced that the JN.1 variant was detected in Santa Cruz as a result of monitoring by the National Institute of Health Laboratories (Inlasa), in coordination with the National Center for Tropical Diseases (Cenetrop).

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