Mayor Claudia López has announced two three-day quarantines in April to curb the surge in COVID-19 infections. Bogotá’s hospital system returns to Red Alert levels of occupation.
As Colombia enters the final days of quarantine, President Duque believes economic reactivation will be powerful. Bogotá’s Claudia López explains our “new reality.”
Bogotá Mayor Claudia López has stated that strict lockdowns for the capital are no longer viable and that preventive health measures will extend until December.
As cities around the world balance economic recovery with public health, Bogotá has spent almost four months in quarantine despite rising coronavirus cases.
Bogotá Mayor Claudia López has enacted the strictest lockdown for Bogotá since the outbreak of the pandemic on March 6. Lockdown will be based on rotating localities.
Bogotá’s Claudia López has requested President Iván Duque enact strict quarantine for Bogotá as of July 1 given rising demand for ICUs in public and private hospitals.
The lockdown in Bogotá has been long and tedious with the prospect of economic reopening hindered by district bureaucracy and protocols.
While Colombian authorities mitigate the spread of COVID-19 with the Health Emergency, criminal groups are terrorizing rural populations under quarantine.
Bogotanos endured the first day of economic activity as lockdown eased, but the epicenter of COVID-19 shifted to the Amazonas department, putting the nation’s new total at 11,613.
The easing of quarantine in Bogotá is a reality as of Monday as an estimated 2.6 million return to work. Mayor Claudia López announced new measures for our “new normal.”
As Latin American countries prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday, mariachi groups are finding the street their stage to deliver a musical interlude from quarantine.
Colombia’s extended lockdown offers citizen scientists a rare opportunity to photograph animals close to home and observations that can enrich the research of biodiversity.
Quarantine brought tourism to a standstill in Cartagena. For a city that has endured pestilence and siege, COVID-19 will too become memory.
Bogotá Mayor Claudia López faces a criminal investigation by the Attorney General after she broke quarantine while shopping with her wife Angélica Lozano.
Bogotá’s most impoverished families are facing starvation with the extended lockdown and delays in food deliveries from the district.
President Iván Duque has extended the nationwide quarantine to May 11 yet will allow two key sectors of the economy to return to work with strict bio-security protocols.