The head of the health portfolio expressed that this result has been possible due to the anti-pandemic policies of the Government of Luis Arce. | Photo: Ministry of Health and Sports Bolivia

La Paz, January 5 (RHC)-- Bolivia closed 2022 with 0.1 percent lethality of COVID-19 disease, the lowest in the region, according to reports from the nation's Ministry of Health and Sports.  "If we analyze the lethality rate in the last epidemiological event, our last wave, whatever you want to call it, we have a lethality of 0.1 percent (...) compared to other countries," said the Minister of Health and Sports, Jeyson Auza at a press conference.

The head of the health portfolio expressed that this result has been possible due to the policies implemented against the pandemic, since the beginning of the Government of President Luis Arce.  These policies achieved a 50 percent decrease in infections in relation to 2020, said the minister, who also recalled that in the first wave, the lethality amounted to 6.2 percent.

In the 2022 management, 551,491 cases were presented, which represents about 50 percent of those reported since 2020, when 2,162 deaths occurred, according to Jeyson Auza.  "In Bolivia we have a broad portfolio of Sputnik V, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Pfizer and Janssen vaccines, in addition to this Bolivia is one of the pioneers in carrying out the interchangeability of immunizers in South America, better known as vaccine combination," he pointed out.