While governments across South American bankroll the fight against coronavirus, in Brazil, loggers are defying isolation measures to deforest the Amazon at an alamaring rate.
The Colombian capital Bogotá sees a second consecutive day of low COVID-19 infections as national total rises to 2852 cases. Three more deaths were confirmed on Monday.
Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Christ the Redeemer lights up to tribute frontline healthcare workers around the world.
A Bogotá doctor is the first healthcare professional to die from coronavirus in the country as confirmed cases put the nation’s total at 2,709.
Bogotá’s Anti-Riot Squad – ESMAD – set out to hose-down the capital’s largest food depot Corabastos as COVID-19 cases in the country increased 250, putting the total at 2,473.
Cases of coronavirus in Colombia now stand at 2,223 with 14 fatalities from the virus confirmed in the last 24-hours.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.