new cases and deaths today, January 15

01/16/2021 Colombia, Health



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This Friday, January 15, another 21,078 patients infected with the disease were found and another 377 deaths were confirmed; there were also 14,622 recovered.

That means that, according to the report from the health authorities, Colombia reached 1,870,179 confirmed cases of COVID-19. In addition, it already has 47,868 deceased and 1,698,457 recovered.

By the middle of this first month of the year, the country faces 118,621 active cases, thus maintaining the second peak in several cities.

For the results of this Friday, the National Institute of Health analyzed 86,857 tests, 45,997 were PCR samples and 40,860 were antigen.

This leaves Colombia as the 11th country with the most cases of coronavirus, behind the United States, India, Brazil, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Turkey, Italy, Spain and Germany, in that order.

Coronavirus cases in Colombia today, January 15:

In a single day, Bogotá breaks its record again, since on Thursday it had exceeded 7,000 infections, but today it continued straight and reached 8,445.

Antioquia (2,720), Valle (1,407), and Cundinamarca (1,136) also remain with very high numbers, this last department has been maintaining in the first places, which may also be the result of the people who traveled to various municipalities in the 2020 December holidays.

With fewer new patients, but still high numbers, are Santander (779), Caldas (722), Nariño (714), Barranquilla (650), Boyacá (568), Risaralda (495), Tolima (425), Huila (378 ), Norte de Santander (338), Quindío (314), Cesar (311), Atlántico (299), Cartagena (284), Cauca (235), Meta and Santa Marta (118 each), Casanare (107) and Cordoba (100).

And with less than a hundred cases, Bolívar (66), Magdalena (60), Arauca (55), La Guajira (54), Caquetá (46), Sucre (45), Putumayo (32), Chocó (30), Amazonas (12), Guaviare (8), San Andrés (6) and Vichada (1).

Deaths from coronavirus in Colombia today, January 15:

The death toll from the disease stood at 377, and it has not dropped below that figure for several days; 349 of those victims belong to days before this Friday.

In number of deaths, Colombia is also ranked 11. Ahead are the United States, Brazil, India, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Russia, Iran and Spain, in that order.

The regions with the most contagion are also those with the most victims. Bogotá also had a very high number of deaths: 126. Valle del Cauca followed with 40 and Antioquia with 30.

The remaining deaths were distributed in the country as follows:

  • 26: North of Santander
  • 24: Tolima
  • 21: Cundinamarca
  • 15: Santander
  • 10: Nariño and Risaralda
  • 9: Barranquilla
  • 8: Boyacá, Cauca, Quindío
  • 7: Caldas and Meta
  • 4: Caquetá and Huila
  • 3: Cartagena, Cesar, La Guajira, Magdalena
  • 2: Córdoba and Santa Marta
  • 1: Atlántico, Bolívar, Casanare and Sucre

The report of the National Institute of Health informs that the youngest person to die today was another minor, barely 11 years old, in Popayán who suffered from epilepsy and cerebral palsy, while the oldest were two 99-year-olds: a woman in Medellín with Alzheimer’s and a man in Bogotá with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Meanwhile, by ages, the death toll is divided as follows:

AGE VICTIMS
0 to 9 years anyone
10 to 19 years a person
20 to 29 years 3 people
30 to 39 years 9 people
40 to 49 years 18 persons
50 to 59 years 36 persons
60 to 69 years 74 people
70 to 79 years 110 people
80 to 89 years 87 people
Over 90 years 39 people

This is the updated bulletin of coronavirus cases in Colombia today and its distribution in each department delivered by the Ministry of Health:

In the first minutes of his Prevention and Action program this Friday, President Iván Duque provided more details about the worrying increase in cases today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ZrhqF2BQ



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