Covid-19: Bolivia will require a health pass for collective activities

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Government of Bolivia announced on Thursday that from January 1st, it would be mandatory to present a health pass, or in its absence a negative coronavirus test, to access some places, such as shopping malls, supermarkets, educational institutions or entertainment venues.

In general, the document certifying the vaccination of citizens will be required in all places where “there is a large number of people”, said the Bolivian Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza.

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“This will always be done respecting the right of those people who decide not to be vaccinated, and those people who exercise this right not to be vaccinated must present the negative PCR test issued up to 48 hours before they enter the establishments and others indicated,” Auza specified when explaining the decree published with the new regulations.

This foresees that transport companies will also demand a health pass to their passengers, to which is added that all civil servants and public servants will have to present their “vaccination card or every week a PCR test that proves” that they are not infected detailed the minister, according to ‘La Razón’.

“We understand that there may be people who do not wish to be vaccinated, but the individual right of these people cannot be above the right of the rest of the people who have been vaccinated and wish to be vaccinated against the disease,” he concluded.

The latest figures provided by the Bolivian Ministry of Health show more than 1,900 cases per day and 16 deaths, while more than 2,000 people are under surveillance because they are suspected of being infected.

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