new cases and deaths today, October 7

The number of recovered is less every day, because even this Tuesday 4,512 people had been reported who overcame the disease, while the number of infections continues to rise and this is reflected in the increase in active cases of COVID-19 in Colombia: 74,586.

That means that with the figures of this Wednesday, October 7, day 215 of the pandemic, the country has 877,683 infections in total, 27,180 deaths and 773,973 recovered.

In the last hours, the Ministry of Health and the National Institute of Health delivered the results of 25,357 PCR samples and 12,195 of antigen, for a total of 37,552.

Colombia is close to 900,000 positive cases and expect a regrowth in the coming months, a situation for which the authorities say they are prepared.

“We have an alert about the possibility of regrowth”, said this week the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, who recommended that Colombians “avoid crowds, avoid anything that brings us closer”, as well as persist in “the use of face masks and self-care measures to avoid contagion and to avoid regrowth ”.

Coronavirus cases in Colombia today, October 7:

Bogotá remains the leader of the unfortunate list of infections and today registered 2,286 new patients, which according to the mayor Claudia López is a response to the public demonstrations of the past weeks.

The president has also said that epidemiological models indicate that there will be outbreaks in the capital, the main focus of the coronavirus in the country, with 281,534 cases.

“Surely towards the end of the year, towards November or December, we could have a second wave much smaller than the first,” said the mayor last Friday at a press conference with foreign media in which she added that “the third could be at the end of the first quarter of next year ”.

Meanwhile, Antioquia remains in second place with 1,080 new patients and they are followed by: Valle (551), Cundinamarca (145), Santander (367), Quindío (296), Huila (251), Cesar (250), Meta (235), Tolima (201), Risaralda (200), North Santander (187), Boyacá (163), Caldas (153), Caquetá (149), Sucre (126), Casanare (112), Cartagena and Cauca (111), and Barranquilla (108).

By under a hundred cases There were La Guajira (98), Nariño (97), Córdoba (91), Atlántico (70), Santa Marta (51), Putumayo (22), Bolívar (21), Guaviare (19), Guainía and Magdalena (14), Arauca and Vaupés (6), Chocó and Vichada (5), San Andrés (3) and Amazonas.

Some of these latter departments have been examples of successful epidemiological control strategies focused on slowing down the spread of the virus.

One of them is the Sustainable Selective Testing, Tracking and Isolation Program (PRASS) with which the health authorities trace the infections to isolate the chain of contacts of positive cases, a plan that increasingly covers more sources of infection.

“It is ultimately the way out of a pandemic because what the PRASS seeks is to identify chains of contagion, so instead of having to quarantine or isolate millions of people, what it seeks is to isolate those who are infected or in high probability of contagions ”, said the outgoing coordinating manager of the government agencies that attend the COVID emergency, Luis Guillermo Plata.

Deaths from coronavirus in Colombia today, October 7:

As for the victims, the report indicated that 163 of the day does not belong to this Wednesday and instead they were distributed as follows: August 3, September 17 and 141 in October.

In addition, there were deaths throughout the country and Bogotá is also at the top of this list, losing another 40 patients. Then there are Antioquia (19), Valle del Cauca (16), Huila (13), Santander and Tolima (11), Cesar (7), Risaralda (6), Caldas and Norte de Santander (5); Caquetá, Cartagena and La Guajira (4); Boyacá, Cauca, Quindío (3); Arauca and Meta (2); Barranquilla, Casanare, Córdoba, Cundinamarca and Nariño (1).

By age, the deaths occurred as follows:
– 0 to 9 years: no person.
– 10 to 19 years: one person.
– 20 to 29 years: no person.
– 30 to 39 years: 4 people.
– 40 to 49 years: 6 people.
– 50 to 59 years: 16 people.
– 60 to 69 years: 24 people.
– 70 to 79 years: 61 people.
– 80 to 89 years: 35 people.
– Over 90 years: 16 people.

This is the newsletter of the day:

# ReportCOVID19 October 7:

3,161 recovered
7,875 new cases
163 dead

Samples: 37,552
CRP: 25,357
Antigen: 12,195

Total:

773,973 recovered
877,683 COVID-19 cases
27,180 deaths
4,005,437 samples processed
74,586 active cases https://t.co/SiKTpTCQ3W pic.twitter.com/V2t2AatSo6

– MinSaludCol (@MinSaludCol) October 7, 2020