Colombia reaches 97,846 infections due to covid-19 and 3,334 deaths

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EFE

07:18 PM / 30/06/2020–
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Colombia reached 97,846 coronavirus infections this Tuesday, June 30, while the number of deaths rose to 3,334 when authorities confirmed 2,803 new cases and 111 deaths, a slight reduction compared to Monday’s figures.

According to the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health, 2,119 people also recovered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cured patients to 42,073, while active cases totaled 52,279.

Of the new cases, 697 are in Bogotá, the main focus of the pandemic, which with the numbers on Tuesday exceeded 30,000 infections.

The department of Atlántico, another region hit by covid-19, added 581 cases on this day, of which 394 are in Barranquilla, its capital, while another 346 were counted in Valle del Cauca.

Antioquia (210), Bolívar (167), Nariño (136), Cundinamarca (135), Sucre (102) and Chocó (92) also had significant numbers of infections.

With today’s data, the regions with the most infections in the country are: Bogotá (30,017), Atlántico (23,360), Valle del Cauca (9,974), Bolívar (9,116), Antioquia (4,442), Nariño (3,443), Cundinamarca ( 2,709), Amazonas (2,299), Magdalena (1,854), Chocó (1,544), Sucre (1,255), Meta (1,250) and Cesar (1,027).

MOST DEAD IN ATLANTIC AND BOGOTÁ

As it happened throughout the month of June, the death register for this day was concentrated in the Atlantic, which had 44 deaths, 30 of them in Barranquilla, and in Bogotá, where there were 22.

After the capital were the departments of Bolívar (10), Córdoba (7), Valle del Cauca (6), Magdalena (5) and Sucre (4).

Nariño, Cesar, Chocó and Meta each added two deaths, while in Antioquia, La Guajira, Cundinamarca, Cauca and Risaralda one death occurred by department.

The Ministry of Health processed today 17,282 prioritized tests in 497 high-risk areas, with which the country accumulates 760,719 tests.

MORE EMERGENCY RESPIRATORS

Colombian President Iván Duque received 234 respirators acquired by the Government on Tuesday to increase the capacity of the country’s intensive care units (ICUs), which is approaching the 100-day quarantine against the pandemic.

“Today the country has managed 4,658 fans, of which 2,767 have been purchased by the Ministry of Health and 1,691 by the Emergency Management Fund (FOME). Additionally, the United States Government has donated 200 fans,” said the leader.

He added that until today 877 of these respirators have arrived in the country, and that in July the Government expects 2,094 more, while in August it awaits another 977.

Duque said that 60 respirators will soon be delivered to the Atlantic and Barranquilla, and another 10 to Ciénaga, in the neighboring department of Magdalena, where infections and deaths are on the rise.

They will also send 10 more to Maicao (La Guajira) and ordered the Health Minister, Fernando Ruiz, “to deliver 300 fans this week to the city of Bogotá.”

The Mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, who is in a verbal dispute with the Duque Government over the management of the pandemic and the resources to face it, thanked the help and said that this completes “425 of the 1,400 that the Presidency has committed to to guarantee for Bogotá “.

“As long as we have a guarantee of weekly and periodic delivery of the missing, we can continue saving lives thanks to everyone’s effort,” López said.

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