He Ministry of Health confirmed 385 more deaths by covid-19 in Colombia, of which 379 correspond to previous days. With this update, the number of deaths in the country rises to 16,568.
(We recommend: Children over 12 years old should wear masks like adults: WHO)
This Friday, August 21, The health authority also reports 8,419 new infections in the last 24 hours, after 30,654 PCR tests and 4,154 antigen tests were processed. It is worth mentioning that, since the first case (confirmed on March 6), 2,409,706 samples have been processed in the country.
So things, the country reaches 522,138 confirmed coronavirus cases.
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To the date, Bogota it is the city in which the most cases are registered. The capital reached the figure of 181,775 confirmed infections after 2,235 more cases were confirmed in this Friday’s report.
The other territorial entities that confirmed the most infections in the last 24 hours were Antioquia (1,279 cases), Cauca’s Valley (628), Santander (537), Córdoba (375) and Cundinamarca (315).
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This report from the Ministry of Health also indicates that, In the last 24 hours, 9,816 recovered patients were confirmed. Thus, there are already 348,940 patients who, to date, have passed the covid-19 in Colombia.
With this update, in total there are 155,576 cases that remain active in the country.
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