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Colombia surpasses 500 daily COVID-19 deaths after pandemic?s most fatal week
by Adriaan Alsema April 30, 2021
Colombia?s health ministry reported more than 500 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, the highest number of daily fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic.
The record number of daily deaths was reported on the last day of the pandemic?s deadliest week in Colombia.
According to the health minister, 3,204 people died of COVID-19 in the past seven days as a third wave of infections in knocking down hospitals in cities throughout the country.
The latest wave is contributed to the appearance of more infectious strains of the coronavirus and the government?s failure to respond to the worst health crisis in more than a century.
How critical the situation is
More than 108,000 people were registered as positive on Thursday. Of these people, 7,280 were in intensive care units (ICU?s).
The combination of the high saturation rate and a shortage in oxygen for medium-care patients has created the worst healthcare crisis since the beginning of the pandemic.
Hospitals in the capital Bogota are on the brink of collapse. The healthcare systems in other major cities collapsed weeks ago already.
The situation is most critical in Medellin where only 18 of the city?s 1053 ICU?s are available, according to statistics by the Health Secretary of the Antioquia province.
Hundreds of people are waiting to be transferred to one of the ICU?s of Colombia?s second largest city amid fears that a growing number of medium-care patients could deplete region oxygen supplies....
Colombia surpasses 500 daily COVID-19 deaths after pandemic?s most fatal week
by Adriaan Alsema April 30, 2021
Colombia?s health ministry reported more than 500 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, the highest number of daily fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic.
The record number of daily deaths was reported on the last day of the pandemic?s deadliest week in Colombia.
According to the health minister, 3,204 people died of COVID-19 in the past seven days as a third wave of infections in knocking down hospitals in cities throughout the country.
The latest wave is contributed to the appearance of more infectious strains of the coronavirus and the government?s failure to respond to the worst health crisis in more than a century.
How critical the situation is
More than 108,000 people were registered as positive on Thursday. Of these people, 7,280 were in intensive care units (ICU?s).
The combination of the high saturation rate and a shortage in oxygen for medium-care patients has created the worst healthcare crisis since the beginning of the pandemic.
Hospitals in the capital Bogota are on the brink of collapse. The healthcare systems in other major cities collapsed weeks ago already.
The situation is most critical in Medellin where only 18 of the city?s 1053 ICU?s are available, according to statistics by the Health Secretary of the Antioquia province.
Hundreds of people are waiting to be transferred to one of the ICU?s of Colombia?s second largest city amid fears that a growing number of medium-care patients could deplete region oxygen supplies....