Danny Ramos, Reuters: Bolivia surpassed 100,000 coronavirus cases on Sunday, the country’s Ministry of Health reported, predicting that the virus would reach its peak there in September. Bolivia’s confirmed coronavirus infections reached 100,344, the ministry said, and there have been 4,058 deaths since the virus first emerged in the country in early March. “Cases are climbing steadily,…
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Coronavirus Is Fuelling Child Labour in Bolivia
Amy Booth reports for Vice News: More children will work to survive now that the government has paused the education system until 2021, say observers. A decision by Bolivia’s interim government to suspend the academic year due to the Covid-19 pandemic in one of the region’s most impoverished, rural nations promises to drive more children…
Infants’ lives ‘hang by a thread’ as Bolivia’s political crisis, coronavirus hit hospitals
By Associated Press for Los Angeles Times: LA PAZ, Bolivia — Hooked up to ventilators, 11 prematurely born infants struggled for survival Thursday in the intensive care ward of a Bolivian maternity hospital. The infants’ supply of oxygen was in peril, doctors said, because of nationwide blockades by supporters of the party of former President Evo Morales…
Mobile Crematory Aims to Help Bolivia Deal with Surge in COVID Deaths
VOA News: A group of entrepreneurs believe their mobile crematorium is the solution to Bolivia’s surge in coronavirus deaths. Carlos Ayo, an environmental engineer, who is part of the group said, there are instances when dozens of bodies piled up in the street in Bolivia because families do not have the resources or aren’t finding places to…
Dear Bernie, dear Harvard boys
Juan Antonio Morales writes in Pagina Siete: It’s hard to get mad at Senator Bernie Sanders, with his somewhat eccentric uncle figure. Unfortunately, they have abused his nobility, as the Chapulín Colorado would say, by having him sign a letter, along with some of his co-religionists, referring to a country he does not know. Crazy…
Lawmakers push toxic disinfectant as Covid-19 treatment in Bolivia, against Health Ministry’s warnings
Radina Gigova reports for CNN: (CNN) The US and Brazil aren’t the only countries where political leaders have appeared to contradict the advice of medical experts. In Bolivia, several lawmakers are fighting to recognize a toxic cleaning agent as a Covid-19 therapy, even as health officials warn it could be deadly. In the city of…
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