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Colombia ends 2020 with unprecedented coronavirus outbreak
by Adriaan Alsema January 1, 2021
Colombia’s health authorities begun 2021 with record-breaking coronavirus outbreak and daily COVID deaths not registered since September 1.
The government of President Ivan Duque has been racing to get its hands on vaccines as COVID hospitalizations are threatening to collapse municipal healthcare systems.
The Health Ministry on Thursday reported a record number of 16,314 infections and 304 deaths, the highest number since September 1.
Health authorities were able to maintain the daily number of deaths stable after drastically increasing hospitals’ intensive care units (ICU’s) for months, but no more.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-ends-2020-with-unprecedented-coronavirus-outbreak/