Eidy Roca is the third member of the government to be infected since Friday. FMTNews Bolivian EidyRoca
Doctors prepare for a house-to-house coronavirus testing campaign in El Alto on Saturday.
LA PAZ: Bolivian Health Minister Eidy Roca has tested positive for Covid-19, becoming the third member of the cabinet to be infected in four days, interim President Jeanine Anez said on Sunday. Anez expressed her support for Roca on Twitter as the country’s rapidly worsening outbreak rose to 38,071 cases and 1,378 deaths.
The minister of the presidency, Yerko Nunez, has been hospitalised with a fever due to “complications from Covid-19”, according to officials.Roca’s health is stable and she is “strictly complying with the safety protocol that includes isolation, medication and care”, said a statement from her office.“Most of the time she works from there and only comes when her physical presence is necessary,” Deputy Communication Minister Isabel Fernandez said on Saturday.
Since the pandemic began in March, several Bolivian ministers have completed 14-day quarantines due to suspected coronavirus cases in their family or close associates.
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