Rebound in new cases of infected by Covid-19 in Colombia

The Ministry of Health reported this October 8, 8,496 new cases of coronavirus in Colombia. In the last 24 hours, 42,155 tests were processed, 23,264 are PCR and 18,891 antigens.

The report also indicates that the number of deaths in the last 24 hours is 151 citizens, for which the country reaches a total of 27,331 deaths since the virus appeared.

Colombia reached 886,179 infections of which 70,056 are active cases and 777,658 correspond to positive cases that have already overcome the disease.

Regarding the contagion of Covid-19 by cities and departments of the country, Antioquia, Bogotá and Valle del Cauca are ahead:

There are 1,488 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.

Minsalud reviews Boyacá’s response to Covid-19

In Tunja, the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Fernando Ruiz Gómez, led the 63 Unified Command Post for attention to Covid-19 to analyze the departmental and municipal response to the virus, as well as determining steps to follow in managing the pandemic.

The head of the Health portfolio analyzed the situation of the department indicating that there are 8,517 cases presented to date, of which there are 1,582 assets and 6,735 recovered. 176 deaths have occurred in the department.

In addition, 53,225 tests have been processed for a population of 1,242,731 inhabitants, with an ICU occupation of 47%.

“The positivity rate has been growing significantly in recent weeks and, According to the Covid Management report, we went from 27.5 in September to 41.6 in October. There has been a good mitigation of the epidemic, but the trend is growing and it is necessary to review ”, he said.

The National Government has contributed in a relevant way in supporting the department with the different strategies, “Assigning 116 ventilators and thus the department has managed to triple, with different efforts, the ICU beds”added the minister.