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After 231 days of pandemic, Colombia is about to exceed one million cases of contagion with the new coronavirus. To do so, it would be the seventh on the planet to reach and exceed that number. For now, it remains in the ranking of the 10 nations with the highest number of infected inhabitants.
According to figures from Our World in Data, updated to October 22, the million-case barrier it had previously been surpassed by the United States, India, Brazil, Russia, Argentina and Spain. In this graph you can see the ranking of the 10 countries with the most cases on the planet.
If the virus incidence data is analyzed, Colombia appears in 26th place in the world, with a rate of 19,461 cases per million inhabitants. In Latin America, Panama is the country with the highest incidence, counting 29,486 per million inhabitants.
In front of its neighbors in South America, our country is the third with the most cases, surpassed by Brazil, which exceeds five million cases and leads the ranking by far, and Argentina, which also surpassed the one million barrier a few days ago.
Regarding the rate per million inhabitants, the figures are led by Peru and Chile. Colombia is in fifth place. Uruguay is the country with the best performance both in general cases and in the incidence of the virus, as can be seen in this graph.
This is how the pandemic is going in the country
However, despite the number of cases, one aspect to highlight is the high number of patients who have already recovered. Currently, nine out of 10 Colombians who were infected with covid-19 are reported as recovered.
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The Government has insisted that the behavior of the pandemic has been ‘regionalized’, that is, that the peaks have occurred on certain dates and at certain times of the year. Amazonas, Villavicencio, Barranquilla and Bogotá (which in fact remains the ‘epicenter of the pandemic’,) they had, between March and September, the most difficult moments.
Currently, it seems that growth is beginning to occur in Antioquia, where the governor must have already declared the red alert due to the increase in the occupation of the Intensive Care Units, which, to date, is close to 80%. In this graph you can see the total cases by department.
And as for the rate per 100,000 inhabitants in the country, Bogotá and Amazonas have the highest incidence in their territories, with more than 3,000 infections per 100,000 inhabitants. San Andrés, which has seen its cases grow in recent weeks, was ranked third.
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