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.
President Iván Duque confirmed on Monday what Colombians were anticipating, a two-week extension to the national quarantine.
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
Indigenous peoples across Colombia are closing their ancestral territories to all outsiders and relying on ancestral plant-based medicines to fend off the advance of COVID-19.
Bogotá’s Claudia López is blaming the government for neglecting the plight of Venezuelan migrants. On Thursday, COVID-19 cases nationwide reached 1161.
Bogotá’s many satellite towns, including La Calera, are disinfecting public spaces and landmarks to mitigate the community spread of coronavirus.
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.
Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro reached across the political divide to offer Colombia’s Iván Duque two PCR testing machines as cases of coronavirus in the country reach 906.
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.
Political uncertainty and cyber threats were leading concerns Colombia’s business leaders viewed as obstacles to growth in 2020. All this changed with coronavirus.
While many expats left Colombia before the country closed its borders with the coronavirus pandemic, others remain, feeling safe with the government’s public health quarantine.
Colombia’s Marxist guerrilla ELN have announced a month-long ceasefire as a humanitarian gesture with the advance in the country of COVID-19.
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.