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This was announced by the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz Gómez, who stressed that it is impossible to comply with the ruling of the judge who ordered the Government to demand it again.
The Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz Gómez, announced this Thursday that the result of the PCR test for COVID-19 will not be required from travelers entering Colombia or quarantine of 14 days, despite the ruling given by a judge of the circuit of Bogota
“For the people who are traveling to Colombia, we want to tell them that as long as this situation supplies the entire legal process, they will be able to continue coming to the country without taking the PCR test and without having to be subjected to a mandatory 14-day quarantine,” Ruíz said during his intervention in the Prevention and Action program of the Presidency of the Republic.
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The official explained that the orders issued by the judge put the Ministry of Health in a “condition of impossibility of compliance”, as this affects the health strategy to contain the epidemic, developed throughout the year in the country and that it has been supported by a Conpes and a series of decrees and resolutions completely structured by this Health portfolio. “This limitation that is generated on the health authority, leads us to make this decision,” he stressed.
On November 4, the Government overturned the decision to eliminate the requirement of PCR tests for travelers, but on the 26th of that same month, the 11th court of the Bogotá circuit ordered it to demand it again, because failure to do so “put the health and life of the Colombian population ”.
