La Paz, March 20 (Prensa Latina) Minister of Health and Sports Jeyson Auza confirmed today that Bolivia maintains a downward trend in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and other epidemics.
Referring to the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, Auza assured at a press conference that “523 cases have occurred this week, a decrease of -23 percent”.
He commented that there were 158 fewer cases than in the previous seven days and this means the country is in the sixth epidemiological wave in decline in 10 weeks.
He underscored the headline in his report every Monday that in this way the indicators are close to the lowest levels of the entire pandemic.
Auza stressed that two consecutive waves were registered with the lowest mortality rate of the entire pandemic at 0.1 percent, stressing that there have been drastic falls in mortality in all departments in the country.
As a result of a government strategic plan to combat this disease, which is transmitted by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the headline asserted that there had been a drastic fall in cases across the country as a result of a government strategic plan to combat the disease .
Only one death was reported in week 11 of the current year, and the incidence rate reaches 0.3 per 100,000 population.
“If we analyze the incidence rate, we can see how it has been declining since week six, reporting an increase in cases in week nine and reaching an incidence rate of 0.3 percent by this epidemiological week 11,” he explained.
However, he cautioned that fluctuations in data for this disease can be recorded at any time.
Regarding whooping cough (whooping cough), Auza reported that the cumulative cases are 296, eight people are reported as active patients, the recovered total 285 and three deaths.
Regarding monkeypox (M-pox), the minister claimed that the country already had the disease under control as there were no patients.