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By publishing the birth and death data for the second quarter of the year, the Dane determined that victims of “certain infectious and parasitic diseases”, which include those attributed to COVID-19, only more than those killed by “ischemic heart disease”.
This same situation would be evident in the accumulated of the year, according to CM &: “For each 100 men who died, 12 lost their lives due to the coronavirus”And“ in the case of women, for every 100 deaths, 9 were due to COVID-19“Says the news.
The list also includes “cerebrovascular diseases”, “chronic diseases of the lower respiratory tract” and homicides, completing the five most important causes of death in the country between March and June.
Driven by the coronavirus, infectious diseases had the most drastic increase over the same period last year. In addition, although the pandemic reached the country in March, in the first 6 months of the year a significant increase in the number of deaths was only reflected towards the month of June, compared to the indices of the previous year.
According to the historical records of the last 5 years (2015-2019), in the month of July, on average, there were 638 deaths per day from all causes. By July 2020, an average of 949 deaths per day were registered.
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Regarding ages, Semana adds that “people aged 85 and over had the highest percentages of deaths from COVID-19“, While” the age group 60 years and over accounted for 74.1 percent of total deaths from the virus.
The director of Dane, Juan Daniel Oviedo, highlighted that the deaths this year already exceed the historical averages of the country: “What is confirmed is that we had a phenomenon of excess mortality which was mitigated for the particular case of Colombia by the great effect of the collateral measures of the pandemic, specifically confinement and mobility restrictions“He noted, quoted by CM &.
Colombia went a few days ago to fifth place in cases of COVID-19 in the world, although currently ranks 11th in number of victims, with 25,828 dead.
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