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A new report delivered this Saturday, May 9, the Ministry of Health regarding the number of infected, victims and patients recovered by coronavirus in Colombia. According to the report, 444 new cases of infection and 17 deaths were reported.
The 444 new cases were reported in: Bogotá (210), Meta (63), Valle del Cauca (57), Cartagena (45), Atlántico (29), Barranquilla (11), Nariño (9), Caldas (6), Norte de Santander (3), Amazonas (3), Antioquia (2), Risaralda (2), Cundinamarca (2), Santander (1) and Cesar (1).
On the other hand, this Saturday there were 17 deaths. For its part, Bogotá has reached 4,028 cases of coronavirus.
The Ministry of Health has reiterated that the great increase in coronavirus cases in recent days has been due to the fact that tests are being carried out in conglomerates, that is, in places where people cannot maintain social distance and, furthermore, the virus is active.
The list of the 17 deceased in the country is discriminated as follows:
– 75-year-old woman in Cali. Comorbidities: diabetes, kidney failure, HT.
– 77 year old woman in Cali. Comorbidities: Diabetes.
– 79-year-old woman in Aguachica (Cesar). Comorbidities: HT, ischemic heart disease, diabetes, epoc, hypothyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis.
– 69-year-old man in Pasto. Comorbidities: epoc, smoking.
– 66-year-old man in Cartagena. Comorbidities: HTA.
– 86-year-old man in Bogotá. Comorbidities: Epoc, diabetes.
– 78-year-old woman in Bogotá. Comorbidities: epoc, smoker.
– 50-year-old woman in Barranquilla. Comorbidities: chronic kidney disease.
– 81-year-old woman in Norcasia (Caldas). Comorbidities: epoc.
– 89-year-old woman in Bogotá. Comorbidities: epoc.
– 64-year-old man in Leticia. Comorbidities: HTA.
– 64-year-old man in Cartagena. Comorbidities: HTA, obesity.
– 87-year-old woman in Soledad (Atlántico). Comorbidities: HT, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, obesity.
– 67-year-old man in Barranquilla. Comorbidities under study.
– 72-year-old man in Barranquilla Comorbidities under study.
– 72-year-old man in Ciénaga (Magdalena). Comorbidities: HT, cardiovascular disease.
– 79-year-old man in Leticia. Comorbidities: chronic kidney disease.
Questions and answers about coronavirus
Where does the coronavirus come from?
His first appearance was at a seafood market in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in China. Genetic sequencing studies have established that the closest ancestors of covid-19 were those found in bats and a type of snakes, which suggests that a hybrid was formed in a process similar to that experienced with the Sars virus. two decades ago. However, the exact origin and how the leap was made to adapt in humans is still being investigated.
In what ways is the virus spread and what is its course?
Because the virus affects the airways, all secretions that come from there can pass it on to someone else. Sneezing, coughing, phlegm, and those that remain on your hands and on wet surfaces can contain it and pass it on to another person directly. Until now it has been calculated that the contagion capacity of the coronavirus is between 2 and 2.5 people for each infected.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the incubation period (time between infection and the appearance of symptoms) varies between 1 and 12 days. Chinese experts have found that people who are contaminated but do not have severe symptoms have a healing time of about two weeks, and those who are seriously affected recover within three to six weeks.
How long does the virus live on surfaces?
According to the WHO, it is not yet known how long 2019-nCoV (technical name of coronavirus) lives on surfaces, although preliminary information suggests that it can survive a few hours. A simple disinfectant can kill it and keep it from infecting. Respiratory viruses are known to tend to live longer in cold, wet conditions and less in warm environments.
What is your mortality rate?
According to the WHO, it has been possible to determine that in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the epidemic originated, the death rate has been 2.4 percent so far, while outside that jurisdiction it is reduced to 0.7 percent.
Who are its main victims?
Currently, older people and those with pre-existing conditions (such as diabetes and heart disease) appear to be at increased risk of developing a severe form of the disease. In China, for example, although the majority of patients are between the ages of 30 and 69, the virus has affected people of all ages.
What does someone depend on survive?
For starters, covid-19 is not a highly fatal disease. What has been seen is that a good number of people can be compromised by the virus without realizing it, because they do not produce symptoms. Another majority group presents flu-like symptoms that quickly improve and a smaller group may face more severe pneumonia-like lung diseases, most of which are cured and a very small percentage of the latter may die (close to 3 percent within China and 0.7 percent outside that country).
The most affected people are usually those who are at the extremes of life (very young children or the elderly), who suffer from chronic diseases or suffer alterations that compromise their defenses. So the chance of survival is very high.
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