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Bolivia reaches 34,227 cases of COVID-19 with high death toll in one day
Updated 2020-07-02 10:46:51 | Spanish. xinhuanet. com
LA PAZ, Jul 1 (Xinhua) - About four months after the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic in Bolivia, on Wednesday it reached 78 deaths in one day, a new record, and totals 34,227 confirmed infections, the Ministry reported on Wednesday. of health.
The nightly report also indicates that 9,764 cases were recovered, which represents an average of 28 percent of the total confirmed cases.
The report confirms that the departments where the pandemic becomes uncontrollable are still Santa Cruz (east), Beni (northeast), Cochabamba (center) and La Paz (west), in that order.
"They are the four departments, of the nine that make up Bolivia, with the highest registry of infections and they concentrate 90 percent of the total.
In addition, the Ministry of Health reported that through an investigation they identified that supermarkets, municipal and street markets are the places with the highest exposure of contagion of the coronavirus.
Given these results, measures were instructed, between general and individual, for the sale of food in those places, to which people go to provide food.
Among the measures are the ventilation of food sales environments; distance between the merchandise and the population with visible marking (signage); provide gel alcohol or the handwashing of those who enter; clean the trade area thoroughly at the end of the day.
It warns that all merchandise must be washed and disinfected with sodium hypochlorite, in addition to prohibiting the consumer from handling food.
The Ministry of Health also instructed that vendors must wear a chinstrap; maintain physical distance and use a uniform established by the institutions for the handling of products.
The instructions warn that the vendors' uniform must be properly washed, soaked with 60-degree hot water or in sodium hypochlorite for 15 minutes daily.
Also, in the face of the collapse of public hospital centers, the Chamber of Deputies approved on Wednesday the project of Law 864, which establishes in an extraordinary way that private clinics, hospitals and health facilities throughout the country will be obliged to attend free of charge to infected people.
"This bill refers to the free care of private hospitals for patients with coronavirus, in addition to private hospitals the central level of the State will cover or pay for them, this refers from the diagnosis, treatment and cure of the people, "said Congressman Franklin Flores.
Likewise, the Ministry of Labor ordered that from July 1 to 31, the working day will be eight continuous hours for the private and public sector, this can start at 05:00 and the conclusion, at most, is 18:00 Monday to Friday.