Bolivian police said Tuesday that they recovered more than 400 bodies from streets and homes over a five-day period, and 85 percent of the dead are believed to have had coronaviruses.
A total of 191 bodies were recovered in the Cochabamba metropolitan area alone from July 15 to 20, and another 141 collected in La Paz, the director of the national police, Colonel Ivan Rojas, told reporters.
In the country's largest city, Santa Cruz, authorities recovered 68 bodies.
The Santa Cruz metropolitan area is the most affected by the coronavirus in Bolivia and represents almost half of the more than 60,000 cases in the country.
About 85 percent of the bodies were "COVID-19 positive cases and cases with COVID symptoms, so they will be reported as suspicious cases," Rojas said.
The rest died from "other causes, that is, death from illness or a violent cause," he added.
According to the national epidemiological office, the western regions of Cochabamba and La Paz are experiencing a "very rapid increase" in coronavirus cases.
From NDTV News
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