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The National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane) presented on Tuesday a new report on vital statistics in which the birth and mortality data are revealed in the second quarter, so far this year, a comparison compared to 2019 and a balance on deaths confirmed and suspected by covid-19 in Colombia.
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One of the most important data in this report is that in a comparison between the second quarter of 2019 and the same period of 2020 confirmed and suspected deaths from covid-19 listed as the second leading cause of death natural in Colombia in both men and women.
The Dane report indicates that the leading cause of natural death in men in this period of time was ischemic heart disease, with 5,012 deaths (17.7 percent of 28,340); and it is followed by those caused by the “rest of certain infectious and parasitic diseases”, with 4,200 (14.8 percent).
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According to the director of Dane, Juan Daniel Oviedo, the confirmed and suspected deaths by covid-19 are 98 percent of that category called “rest of certain infectious and parasitic diseases.”
In the third place of the causes of natural deaths in men are cerebrovascular diseases, with 1,708 (6 percent).
“Deaths from natural causes in men increased 12.9 percent. The causes that contributed the greatest contributions to this increase were acute myocardial infarction, coronavirus disease 2019, intra-brain hemorrhage, other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, hypertension and unspecified diabetes mellitus, ”notes Dane.
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Juan Daniel Oviedo, director of Dane, presented the figures of the pandemic so far this year.
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The same occurs in deaths from natural causes in women, which rose 3.9 percent compared to last year.
In them, the first cause of natural death in the second quarter of the year was ischemic heart diseases (3,947 and 15.7 percent) and in second place are also the “rest of certain infectious and parasitic diseases”, which produced 2,659 deaths between April and June (10.6 percent).
In global figures, according to the report, between March 1 and July 31, 2020, 12,311 deaths were reported by confirmed covid-19 and 4,118 suspicious deaths from the new coronavirus, while deaths from pneumonia and influenza were 3,128 in that period .
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The relationship dictates that For every three deaths confirmed by covid-19 in Colombia there is a suspect. And as a fact to highlight is that according to the Dane the first death by suspected covid-19 was registered on March 2 and confirmed on March 16.
63.8 percent of confirmed COVID-19 deaths were men and in terms of age ranges, 74.1 percent (almost three out of four) are concentrated in people over 60 years of age.
By extending the analysis time and reviewing what happened throughout 2020 and the excess mortality, the Dane reveals that between epidemiological weeks 1 to 30 there were 14,662 more deaths than the average of the last five years from all causes.
This excess is marked by the confirmed and suspected deaths of covid-19, according to the director of the entity, Juan Daniel Oviedo.
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In fact, as the report shows, although in April the daily average of deaths was below the historical average of the last 5 years by lhe fall in mortality from external causes that left the quarantine, in June and July it shoots up. In June, for example, there were 774 daily deaths when the average was 649 and in July the figures were 949 and 638, respectively.
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