Five Colombian cities, including Bogotá, have been given military support to help local police with urban crime. Bogotá to get an additional 500 soldiers on Saturday.
Colombians overwhelmingly agree that their country should offer safe passage to Afghans fleeing persecution and retaliation by the Taliban, reveals a recent poll.
After a run on COVID-19 vaccines, Colombia will receive more than 4.2 million doses this week. Tuesday marked lowest per day death toll since May, 2020.
After one month in which an additional 1,500 police are patrolling Bogotá streets, violent assaults and other crimes are slowing the city’s economic reactivation.
Colombia registered the lowest per day cases in COVID-19 infections since June 2020. The deceleration comes as vaccine coverage extends to minors age 12 to 14.
Bogotá is in the grip of a crime wave that has required additional police on city streets. Defense Minister Molano blames anti-government protests for surge in homicides.
The Colombian capital will receive some 4,000 Afghan refugees as they await special immigration visas to enter the US.
The protests that beseiged Colombia during four months have proven how pandemic-hit democracies remain too exposed to the dangerous narratives of populist leaders.
Colombia’s COVID-19 vaccination plan now includes all adults age 20 or over as per day infections and deaths continue to decelerate.
Coronavirus cases and single day mortality rates have reached five months lows in Colombia. China’s Sinovac studying vaccine production plant near Colombian capital.
Colombia’s Covid-19 cases and deaths continue drop as the country nears 30 million doses administered among adults 25 years or over.
Colombia’s vaccine roll-out has surpassed targets set when the national campaign was launched in February. Over 50% of Bogotá’s adult residents have received a COVID-19 shot.
Colombia’s Ministry of Health will lift all age requirements for COVID-19 vaccines to reach herd immunity by the end of 2021.
Vandals once again threaten to cause major disruption and damage to Bogotá’s transportation infrastructure during the Independence Day celebrations.
After two months in which Bogotá has been attacked by vandals, the district’s new Security Secretariat must justify why militarization is not an option despite threats of more violence.
Swedish violinist and conductor Joachim Gustafsson has been named the OFB’s new music director after a vote by more than 100 musicians of the Bogotá Philharmonic.