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Bolivia: authorities accuse coronavirus sufferers of hiding the disease
World
June 04, 2020 - 19:58
According to the authorities, they do not admit to being infected so as not to respect the quarantine and they spread the Covid-19 further. They threaten to mark the houses of the infected.
According to Bolivian authorities and doctors, coronavirus patients hide their condition, refuse to confine themselves and cause more contagions in their environment, for which they threatened to mark their homes with posters.
While showing a Thanos doll, the official pointed out in reference to the coronavirus: We have to guard against this Thanos. This means chaos and death.
This is the case of an individual from El Alto, a neighboring city of La Paz, who despite appearing among the almost 12,000 infected in Bolivia, abandoned his compulsory isolation, went to play a game of futsal and then to drink at a bar, lamented Henry Contreras, secretary general of that municipality.
The subject, whose name was not disclosed, "died" after infecting at least 30 people, which "caused anxiety in the neighborhood when he learned that he had coronavirus," the official told reporters.
Contreras explained that it is not the only case of a person who hides his infection with Covid-19, since an infected young man, also in El Alto, threatened the official after he discovered his disease.
"'I'm going to hug you to infect you,' he told me," Contreras said. The boy's father had died days earlier from the coronavirus.
"This concealment is due to the social stigma and discrimination that society makes in relation to patients with positive Covid-19," Edgar Fern?ndez, president of the Medical College of Cochabamba (center of the country), reported to the newspaper P?gina Siete, reported the AFP agency.
After a pandemic evaluation meeting, authorities in La Paz and El Alto announced on Tuesday that they will mark the homes of patients who do not want to be confined, precisely because of the numerous cases of quarantine noncompliance.
"People who are with coronavirus and who do not want to isolate themselves, we are going to put a sign in their house saying: here is Covid-19!" Threatened the Minister of Public Works, Iv?n Arias, after repeated cases of people walking through the streets without masks or protection, despite being infected.
So far, no house is known to have been marked, but reported infringement cases are frequent in most Bolivian departments.
Bolivia so far registers 11,638 infections and 400 deaths from coronavirus. According to a projection by the Ministry of Health, Bolivia - which has relaxed the quarantine since Monday - will close June with 28,000 infected, declared the national head of Epidemiology, Virgilio Prieto.
Bolivia: authorities accuse coronavirus sufferers of hiding the disease
World
June 04, 2020 - 19:58
According to the authorities, they do not admit to being infected so as not to respect the quarantine and they spread the Covid-19 further. They threaten to mark the houses of the infected.
According to Bolivian authorities and doctors, coronavirus patients hide their condition, refuse to confine themselves and cause more contagions in their environment, for which they threatened to mark their homes with posters.
While showing a Thanos doll, the official pointed out in reference to the coronavirus: We have to guard against this Thanos. This means chaos and death.
This is the case of an individual from El Alto, a neighboring city of La Paz, who despite appearing among the almost 12,000 infected in Bolivia, abandoned his compulsory isolation, went to play a game of futsal and then to drink at a bar, lamented Henry Contreras, secretary general of that municipality.
The subject, whose name was not disclosed, "died" after infecting at least 30 people, which "caused anxiety in the neighborhood when he learned that he had coronavirus," the official told reporters.
Contreras explained that it is not the only case of a person who hides his infection with Covid-19, since an infected young man, also in El Alto, threatened the official after he discovered his disease.
"'I'm going to hug you to infect you,' he told me," Contreras said. The boy's father had died days earlier from the coronavirus.
"This concealment is due to the social stigma and discrimination that society makes in relation to patients with positive Covid-19," Edgar Fern?ndez, president of the Medical College of Cochabamba (center of the country), reported to the newspaper P?gina Siete, reported the AFP agency.
After a pandemic evaluation meeting, authorities in La Paz and El Alto announced on Tuesday that they will mark the homes of patients who do not want to be confined, precisely because of the numerous cases of quarantine noncompliance.
"People who are with coronavirus and who do not want to isolate themselves, we are going to put a sign in their house saying: here is Covid-19!" Threatened the Minister of Public Works, Iv?n Arias, after repeated cases of people walking through the streets without masks or protection, despite being infected.
So far, no house is known to have been marked, but reported infringement cases are frequent in most Bolivian departments.
Bolivia so far registers 11,638 infections and 400 deaths from coronavirus. According to a projection by the Ministry of Health, Bolivia - which has relaxed the quarantine since Monday - will close June with 28,000 infected, declared the national head of Epidemiology, Virgilio Prieto.