As coronavirus ravages Ecuador, residents of the country’s coastal city Guayaquil don’t have where to bury their dead. The government has launched a body recollection task force.
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.
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.
Two more deaths from COVID-19 were also reported in Bogotá, after a first death from coronavirus was confirmed on Wednesday. The most recent victims are an 84-year old man and 59-year old woman.
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.