On June 3, 2020, above please note that the incidence in Santa Cruz (2.7 million inhabitants) at 400m above sea level IN GREEN is much higher [12.0 times more] than in the cities of La Paz and El Alto (2.7 million inhabitants)  at 3,100m to 4,100m IN DASHED BLUE.

Also, in Beni at 150m IN LIGHT BLUE with only 420,000 inhabitants, (6 times less than in La Paz), already has 3.3 times more cases of COVID-19.

The first graph above is the updated Bolivia SARS-CoVid-2 situation, with the high-altitude low incidence focus. It is linked to our paper

“Does the pathogenesis of SARS-CoVid-2 virus decrease at high-altitude?” 

Christian Arias-Reyes¹, Natalia Zubieta-DeUrioste², Liliana Poma-Machicao¹, Fernanda Aliaga-Raudan¹, Favio Carvajal-Rodriguez¹, Mathias Dutschman⁴, Edith M. Schneider-Gasser³, Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja*², Jorge Soliz*^1,2

1- Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ), Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
2- High Altitude Pulmonary and Pathology Institute IPPA. La Paz, Bolivia.
3- Institute of Veterinary Physiology, Vetsuisse-Faculty University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 260.

4- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Gate 11 Royal Parade, 3052, University of Melbourne Victoria, Australia

It is an original idea by Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja so that COBID-19 information be up-to-date for all readers of our article until the Pandemia stops. Consequently, this scientific article does not become out-dated. Below, is the incidence difference between the lowland cities in Bolivia and that above 3,000m (dashed lines).

The figure below was developed by Favio Carvajal-Rodríguez.

Please read the original newspaper article by Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja where he is the first in the world to propose that the Coronovirus will have a lower incidence at high altitude: 

The advantages of Ultra-Violet radiation in controlling the coronavirus at high-altitude published on April 5th, 2020 in La Razon, La Paz, Bolivia.

Extended Longevity at High Altitude published in Dec 2017 at BLDE J where Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja expressed for the first time that at high altitude Ultra-Violet radiation serves as an environmental disinfection. These original concepts gave birth to the concept that Coronavirus can have a lower incidence at high altitude.

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