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Eight were those killed by coronavirus in the Atlantic, as reported by the Ministry of Health this Friday. The deaths occurred in Barranquilla (5), Soledad (2) and Luruaco (1).
As for new infections, the city increased the number of the previous day (301) to 321, while in the department they were 117.
The health authority indicated that Colombia exceeded 1.4 million infections by coronavirus by confirming another 8,998 cases, while it added another 185 deaths, a figure with which it reached 38,669 deaths.
According to the Ministry of Health, the country accumulates a total of 1,408,909 positives, of which 62,592 remain active, which is equivalent to 4.44%, and 1,304,299 cases have been reported as recovered, that is, 92.58%.
The entity’s daily bulletin registered 3,123 cases in Bogotá, a city that was followed in numbers by the departments of Antioquia with 1,224 and Valle del Cauca with 700.
There was also high data in Santander (383), Bolívar (380) and Cundinamarca (328).
With the figures of this day, the regions that accumulate the most cases are Bogotá (400,408), Antioquia (226,936), Valle del Cauca (117,941), Atlantic (81,809), Santander (57,559) and Cundinamarca (56,552).
The deceased of this day were in Bogotá (29); Valle del Cauca (23); Antioquia (20); Cundinamarca and Norte de Santander (15); Quindío and Santander (14).
The other cases were recorded in Caldas, Nariño and Tolima (6); Huila (5); Meta and Risaralda (4); Boyacá, Cesar and Bolívar (3); Cauca (2), and Arauca, Caquetá, Casanare, Putumayo and San Andrés (1).
On this day, 53,152 samples were processed, 32,431 of them PCR and 20,721 antigens, for a total of 6.96 million tests performed.
ICU occupancy increases
Colombia overcame the first great wave of infections by covid-19 at the end of August, With which in September the authorities launched an economic reactivation plan without ruling out a new increase in the spread of the virus.
Although from the date the numbers of infections and deaths have remained high (above 5,000 cases and 100 deaths a day), the most affected regions managed to reduce the occupation of the Intensive Care Units (ICU).
However, the occupancy of those beds has risen in recent days and several cities are on red alert due to the accelerated rate at which the number has been growing.
For example, health professionals from Norte de Santander, which on Thursday had the highest number of deaths in the country, asked “set a necessary quarantine throughout the city” of Cúcuta, the capital of the department, with the aim of “sufficiently reducing the rate of infections until it reaches a level of hospital capacity of lower risk.”
Through a letter, in which they considered the “collapse in the provision of the service in the different health institutions,” they asked the authorities to “immediately arrange and apply the regulations that are necessary to ensure reasonable epidemiological control.” .
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