Colombia news: coronavirus reaches 894,300 cases and 27,495 deaths ho – Health

The Ministry of Health confirmed 164 more deaths from covid-19 in Colombia, of which 147 correspond to previous days. With this update, the total number of deaths in the country amounts to 27,495.

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This Friday, October 9, the health authority also reports on 8,121 new infections in the last 24 hours, after 32,860 PCR tests and 16,771 antigen tests were processed. It is worth mentioning that, since the first case (confirmed on March 6), 4,097,223 samples have been processed in the country.

Thus, the country reaches 894,300 confirmed coronavirus cases. To date, Bogotá is the city with the most cases. The capital reached the figure of 284,824 confirmed infections after 2,030 more were confirmed this Friday.

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On the other hand, this report from the Ministry of Health indicates that, In the last 24 hours, 2,889 recovered patients were confirmed. Thus, there are already 780,547 patients who, to date, have overcome covid-19 in Colombia.

With this update, in total 84,259 cases remain active in the country.

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