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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s vp and 6 cupboard ministers have examined optimistic for the coronavirus and are in isolation, the federal government stated Tuesday.
The an infection for Vice President David Choquehuanca got here per week after he had acquired his first dose of an anti-COVID-19 vaccine. He had been broadly criticized for ready so lengthy to get a shot.
The Ministry of the President stated others testing optimistic had been ministers of the inside, Eduardo del Castillo; protection, Edmundo Novillo; international relations, Rogelio Mayta; schooling, Edgar Pari; justice, Iván Lima, and planning, Gabriela Mendoza.
As in a lot of Latin America, confirmed COVID-19 instances have been rising sharply in Bolivia. Officers reported 3,550 new instances on Jan. 1 and 11,190 per week later.
That has prompted officers to cancel mass gatherings within the nation of 11.6 million individuals.