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.
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.
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.
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.
Hotels, naval bases, fairgrounds are being adapted as makeshift hospitals across Colombia as COVID-19 cases reach 608.
Photographer Javier Rey captured these images of the Colombian capital deserted on the first day of the nationwide quarantine.
Coronavirus screening at Colombian airports is under scrutiny as nationals and residents return to the country.MinSalus calls for solidarity with procedures.