The Vice President of Bolivia, David Choquehuanca, contracted Covid-19 for the third time, while six government ministers are with the disease, the Ministry of the Presidency reported on Tuesday.
According to the official statement, Vice President Choquehuanca, the Chancellor Rogelio Mayta and the ministers of Government (Eduardo del Castillo), Defense (Edmundo Novillo), Development Planning (Gabriela Mendoza), Justice (Iván Lima) and Education (Edgar Pary) “have been diagnosed as positive for covid-19 “.
The office of the Presidency stated that all these authorities “are stable and complying with the isolation protocol, performing their functions through teleworking or remote work.”
The government argued that everyone is vaccinated.
Choquehuanca, a politician from the Aymara indigenous people, revealed on December 30 that he contracted the coronavirus twice and that he overcame the disease with the use of ancestral medicine.
The Foreign Ministry reported Monday that Mayta gave positive to Covid-19 in Argentina, after participating in a meeting of ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
Bolivia, of almost 12 million inhabitants, added up to Monday more than 686,000 infected and almost 20,000 deaths.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx