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Long queues, short vaccine supply in Bolivia amid COVID-19 surge

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La Paz / Cochabamba, Jun 7 (EFE).- Lines, crowds and complaints at the doors of health centers in the main Bolivian cities marked the continuation of mass vaccination on Monday, which is being carried out amid an escalation of third wave Covid-19 infections.The same scenes are playing out in several of the most important cities in the country such as Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, El Alto and La Paz, with patients waiting hours for inoculation. (Camera: CLAUDIO ABREGO).SHOT LIST: CITIZENS WAIT TO GET COVID-19 VACCINE IN LA PAZ AND COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA.SOUND BITE: MARY CRUZ, VACCINATION COORDINATOR OF COCHABAMBA'S FACULTY OF MEDICINE (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: People are used to wanting to be the first. There are some who come here at like 6 or 4 in the morning so that they can be the first. However, if we do have the established number (of the vaccines), people can just gradually come (throughout the day) to get the vaccine.

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