President Ivan Duque and Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez are on a crash course over a possible second lockdown to prevent a collapse of the healthcare system due to COVID-19 infections…
The coronavirus is coming eerily close to collapsing the healthcare system in Colombia’s capital Bogota, which saw its intensive care unit availability drop from 50% to 30% in just 10…
Colombia’s health authorities have confirmed more than 50,000 total coronavirus infections and 1,500 Covid-19 deaths in total and 75 deaths on Sunday alone, the deadliest day of the pandemic so…
Bogota’s mayor said Sunday that local authorities will take control over both public and private hospitals to prevent the coronavirus from collapsing the healthcare system of Colombia’s capital. Following a…
Colombia’s capital Bogota declared an orange alert and port city Barranquilla decreed a curfew on Thursday as the coronavirus threatens to collapse the cities’ healthcare systems. Bogota mayor Claudia Lopez…
Colombia’s health organizations announced protests for Tuesday as the government reportedly failed to make almost 90% of the promised investments to confront the impending peak in coronavirus infections. According to…
Colombia’s Health Minister Fernando Ruiz has succeeded in turning almost all medical organizations against him as his coronavirus response — as foretold — is turning into a disaster. In his…
Government failures to provide aid ahead of the coronavirus pandemic is “exacerbating hunger and the risk of extermination” of Colombia’s ethnic minorities, a court agreed. According to the Cundinamarca Superior…
The horror caused by the coronavirus in Colombia’s Amazon region where people have no access to basic needs and healthcare shows things cannot go on like this.