Colombia records 14,189 new cases of covid-19 infections and 420 deaths, this Monday, April 19

The Ministry of Health and Social Protection reported: this Monday, April 19, 14 189 new cases of covid-19 in Colombia. In the last 24 hours, 62,825 tests which 47,637 threads PCR and 15188 on antigens.

The report also notes that, 420 Colombians died of the disease within the last 24 hours. In this way, the country reaches a total of 68,748 deaths since the virus reached the national territory.

By clustering all the figures, Colombia has reached 2,667,136 infected people, of which 101,106 active cases and 2,566,030 correspond to positive cases which have already overcome the disease.

Regarding the regions with the most reported cases, Bogota leads with 2165 infected, followed by Antioquia with 2,001 and in third place Atlantic with 1.519.

There are 1,257 conglomerates in the country. The territories are: Amazonas, Antioquia (Ituango), Arauca, Atlántico, Barranquilla, Bogotá, Boyacá, Bolívar, Buenaventura, Caldas, Caquetá, Cartagena, Casanare, Cauca, Cesar, Chocó, Córdoba, Cundinamarca, Huila, La Guajira, Meta, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Quindío, Risaralda, San Andrés, Santa Marta, Santander, Sucre, Tolima, Valle, Vaupés, Vichada, Guaviare and Guainía.

To manage the third peak of covid-19 infections in Colombia, the national government published on April 19 the circular 10189 with which new measures are decreed to municipalities and departments.

The document establishes the territorial entities with an occupancy rate of Intensive Care Units (ICU) of 85%, implement pic and card (also in public transport), from this Monday, April 19 until 5 morning hours Monday April 3. May. Hotels and gastronomic establishments will not be included in this measure, according to the Ministries of Health and the Interior.

Populations exceeding this percentage of occupancy must also implement a curfew between 6 p.m. and 5 a.m. (they will also apply from April 19 to May 3). Home services and the transit of vehicles whose occupants are returning home will be authorized.

If you would like to know the restrictions in populations where the intensive care occupancy rate is less than 85%, click on the link.

In a review of the latest quarantine measure, released on April 18, the Bogotá mayor’s office reported that the Brazilian and British variants of covid-19 are already in the capital; the finding was made by the public health laboratory of the Universidad de los Andes.

Regarding the strains, in the document in question, the District indicated that they are “more aggressive than those which circulated before”. And this April 19, the director of the National Institute of Health (INS), Martha Ospina, explained why with them hovering the risk increases.

The first statement of the director of the INS, in an interview with Noticias Caracol, is that In Colombia, 50 variants of covid-19 are circulating, including two, the Brazilian and the British. He also assured that the British lineage had been identified in Bogotá, but also in Caldas.; As for the native of Brazil, it predominates in Leticia and in the south of the country.

Globally, there are over 1,200 variants of covid-19, but what is of particular concern to South Africans – who are not in Colombia – the British and Brazilians is the ability to infect . In Ospina’s words, mutations in the genomes of these variants make: “The variant is more related or more efficient when it comes to sticking to human receptors.” It is more likely to be transmitted, requires less contact time and less drop from person to person ”.

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