The cases of COVID-19 in Colombia do not decrease: this December 4, 9,285 new infected were registered

The Ministry of Health reported, this December 4, 9,285 new cases of coronavirus in Colombia. In the last 24 hours, 56,922 tests were processed, of which 31,470 are PCR and 25,452 are antigens.

The report also indicates that the number of deaths is 162. This Friday the country reaches a total of 37,467 dead since the virus reached national territory.

Colombia came to 1′352,607 infected, of which 70,968 are active cases and 1′240,990 correspond to positive cases that have already overcome the disease.

Regarding the contagion of covid-19 by cities and departments of the country, Bogotá and Antioquia continue to lead.

There are 1,858 conglomerates in the country. The territories are: Amazonas, Antioquia, Arauca, Atlántico, Barranquilla, Bogotá, Boyacá, Bolívar, Caldas, Caquetá, Cartagena, Casanare, Cauca, Cesar, Chocó, Córdoba, Cundinamarca, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, North from Santander, Putumayo, Quindío, Risaralda, San Andrés, Santa Marta, Santander, Sucre, Tolima, Valle, Vaupés, Vichada, Guaviare and Guainía.

The Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, assured that there is an impossibility from the health point of view to comply with the ruling of a judge who requests PCR tests from international travelers who enter the country, because it has economic and health effects and “what will proceed now will be the filing of the challenge of the ruling and the process will continue,” he said.

“Contempt is a manifest attitude of ill will, negligence, seeking to obstruct or conscientiously deceive justice and this is not our situation. Ours is the impossibility from the point of view of health and defense of public health in this country to be able to apply a ruling that generates an extreme situation in the face of public health policy, ”Minister Ruiz explained in a statement.

According to Ruiz, the country has been facing the pandemic for more than ten months through different measures, he indicated that a quarantine for 120 thousand people who travel each month represents effects on the mental health of people. In turn, he argued that there are certain factors such as unemployment and poverty that have important effects on health.

“The economy and health have to move harmoniously always guided by epidemiological considerations and that is what we have done in the country,” Ruiz pointed out.

“The critical debate is to what extent individual rights in a pandemic could have limitations, how the right to health competes with that of work and mobilization. This falls within the field of public health, which includes collective interventions, policies aimed at the entire population, ”said the Minister of Health.

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