AFP / Bolivia
President Luis Arce asked the population this Friday “not to be wary” against Covid-19, in light of fears of an outbreak, and emphasized the use of traditional medicines to fight infections.
“We continue to face the pandemic with possible outbreaks in many countries, we have seen it in Europe and we have to be vigilant, we cannot lower our guard,” said the president during the inauguration of a gathering of indigenous peoples in the United States. Cochabamba region (center). .
Bolivia has recorded more than 9,000 deaths and infected approximately 148,600 with the coronavirus since March.
Regions and cities such as Santa Cruz (east) and La Paz are taking steps to contain the outbreaks they suffer.
Arce, who claims the knowledge and knowledge of the indigenous peoples, pointed out that “we have resorted to those herbs that our brothers knew from way back to fight the pandemic and we have done it successfully in the different nationalities. and peoples of our Latin America. “
Since the first cases of sick people were known in the country, the indigenous sectors, mainly Aymara and Quechuas, have used various natural products to which they attribute healing powers.
This population uses plants and trees such as eucalyptus, wira wira and chamomile as antibacterial and expectorant agents, which according to indigenous shamans help build and strengthen the immune system.
At the same time, a neighborhood in the heart of the city of La Paz has been subject to epidemiological monitoring since Friday and for a week in the face of a targeted outbreak of coronavirus cases.
Municipal personnel brigades wash the supply markets in the Miraflores district, home to a network of public hospitals, the mythical Hernando Siles Stadium and the headquarters of the Armed Forces High Command.
Access to the markets is limited to a maximum of 30% of their capacities, in a so-called “epidemiological blockade”.
The Santa Cruz region is also taking steps to strengthen its health system after the government stated earlier this week that it is facing a “second wave” of the pandemic.