During a virtual press conference, Bogotá Mayor Claudia López announced that gender-based mobility restrictions go into effect for the capital during the extended quarantine.
The Colombian Air Force has joined the fight to protect vulnerable populations from the spread of COVID-19. The nation’s coronavirus case total climbed to 1780 on Tuesday.
With Colombia’s nationwide quarantine to be modified in a week, the death toll from COVID-19 stands at 46, and number of total infections rising to 1579.
Venezuelan migrants wanting to be repatriated were transported to the border at Cúcuta by Migración Colombia. On Sunday, the national COVID-19 count rose 79 new cases to 1485.
Despite rising numbers of COVID-19 cases across Colombia, Friday’s Ministry of Health report confirms two days of decreasing infections in Bogotá. The national total: 1267
Bogotá’s Claudia López is blaming the government for neglecting the plight of Venezuelan migrants. On Thursday, COVID-19 cases nationwide reached 1161.
Cases of coronavirus COVID-19 continue to rise across of Colombia with the national total at 1065 on Wednesday. Another victim of the virus puts the death toll at 17.
Claudia López is planning to extend Bogotá’s lockdown for three months challenging President Duque’s nationwide quarantine deadline.
Cases of COVID-19 climbed to 798 on Monday. The death toll has reached 13. Humanitarian flights continue from Bogotá.
Cases of COVID-19 continue to climb in Colombia with the Ministry of Health reporting 702 patients as of Sunday. The death toll in the country stands at 10.
As coronavirus cases increase in Bogotá, the district has closed live animal markets to protect public health from potential breeding grounds of other deadly viruses.
Hotels, naval bases, fairgrounds are being adapted as makeshift hospitals across Colombia as COVID-19 cases reach 608.
Food donations, online fundraising, and concern for the plight of animals are some of the ways Bogotá grapples with the coronavirus lockdown.
Photographer Javier Rey captured these images of the Colombian capital deserted on the first day of the nationwide quarantine.
Desolation reigns in Bogotá as the first day of the COVID-19 quarantine begins. Cases of coronavirus continued to climb nationwide on Wednesday to 470.
Scores of Bogotanos defied the stay at home order of Mayor Claudia López hours before the nationwide lockdown is enforced.