The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, claims the use of the ancestral medicine to fight infections as a method to deal with coronavirus, And urged Bolivians “not to lower their guard” in the face of fears of a resurgence.
“We continue to face the pandemic with possible outbreaks in many countries. we cannot lower our guard“, The governor stated yesterday during the inauguration of a meeting of indigenous people in the Cochabamba region, reports the news agency Tlam.
Arce, who claims the knowledge and skills of the native peoples, points out that “we have resorted to these herbs that our brothers they knew ancestral to be able to fight the pandemic and we have done so successfully in the different nationalities and peoples of our Latin America. “
Since the first cases of illness in the country became known, the indigenous sectors, mainly Aymara and Quechua, have used different natural products, to which they attribute them. healing powers. These products, such as eucalyptus, wira wira and chamomile, are considered antibacterial and expectorant ingredients that, according to native shamans, help to create and strengthen the immune system.
In parallel, a neighborhood in the heart of the city of Peace they begin to be subjected today, and for a week, to an epidemiological control, in front of a focused regrowth of coronavirus cases. Brigades of municipal personnel carry out the washing of supply markets in the neighborhood of Miraflores, Where there is a network of public hospitals, the legendary Hernando Siles stadium and the main dependencies of the High Command of the Armed Forces.
The rule of Holy Cross He also took steps to strengthen his health care system, after his government declared earlier this week that it was facing a “second wave” of the pandemic.
Bolivia has recorded more than 9,000 deaths since March and around 148,600 infected with coronavirus.