Colombia surpasses one million confirmed coronavirus cases

Colombia: Colombia has surpassed one million confirmed coronavirus cases. It has become the second country in the Latin America region to report that a big number in lesser than a week.

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Columbia recorded 8,769 new infections in past 24 hours, this has brought the total to 1,007,711. First coronavirus case in Columbia was discovered on March 6, the country’s health ministry announced on Saturday. Deaths increased to 30,000 after officials added 198 deaths from the last 10 days.

Argentina hit one million confirmed cases on Monday and Peru and Mexico are suspected to reach the severe marker in the weeks ahead.

Brazil stands third globally in the number of virus cases and passed one million infections back in June.

With 50 million people, Colombia is the eighth nation to record the massive one million coronavirus cases. Besides Argentina and Brazil, the others are the United States, India, Russia, France and Spain, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

At an appearance in Chinchina, Caldas, President Ivan Duque emphasised that Colombia has a comparatively low death rate amongst Latin American nations on a per capita basis.

“We did much better than other nations. But I do not state this so that we feel gratified, I say it because we must defend ourselves better,” he said.

The president announced that he has allotted support of “close to 11 percent of GDP” – some $31bn – to deal with the crisis.

Colombia performed under a national lockdown on March 25, then eased limitations to shore up its drowning economy, with unemployment in centres rising to an all-time high of 19.6 percent in August.

Since September 1, the country has been dependent on personal capacity and extensive use of masks in public areas.

The six-month lockdown did help slowlower the contagion and gave authorities some time to increase the quantity of ICU beds.

While incidents increased dramatically in Bogota, expanding hospital capacity, the city has maintained to bypass the kinds of terrible scenes seen outside in the region of patients outlined up outside hospitals, striving to locate a bed.

Overall, Latin America has continued to record some of the largest caseloads, diagnosing more than 100,000 confirmed contaminations every day. However, the World Health Organization states that Europe is now witnessing even greater numbers as a second wave of the virus blows.