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.
With efforts to boost Bogotá’s ICU capacity with COVID-19, the number of infected patients across Colombia has risen to 1406 and a death toll of 32 since the outbreak.
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.
John Lundin, a former Chicago chaplain and Dalai Lama biographer is spending his Colombian quarantine at the spiritual Heart of the World, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
Cases of COVID-19 climbed to 798 on Monday. The death toll has reached 13. Humanitarian flights continue from Bogotá.
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.