Colombia exceeds 49,000 deaths from covid-19, with 373 new deaths

Medical personnel take covid samples in the town of Ciudad Bolívar this Monday, in Bogotá. EFE / Mauricio Dueñas Castañeda

Bogotá – Colombia added this Monday 373 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and reached 49,004 fatalities in ten months of health emergency, reported the Ministry of Health.
On this day, 14,719 new infections were also accounted for, bringing the country a total of 1,923,132 infections.

According to the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health, of the deaths registered today, 335 occurred in previous days and were in Bogotá (104), Antioquia (48), Cundinamarca (37), Valle del Cauca (30), Santander (21), Tolima (20), Norte de Santander (16), Nariño and Atlántico (13), Boyacá (11).
The other deaths were in Huila (9); Goal (8); Risaralda (7); Cauca and Quindío (6); Caldas, Casanare, Putumayo and Magdalena (3); Arauca, La Guajira, Vichada (2), and Amazonas, Caquetá, Cesar, Chocó, Sucre and Bolívar (1).

Regarding infections, the health entity reported that the largest number was in Bogotá, which registered 3,897, followed by Antioquia (2,412), Valle del Cauca (1,349), Cundinamarca (1,120), Atlántico (794), Tolima (591) and Boyacá (520).

The highest numbers of infections continue to be found in Bogotá (560,284), Antioquia (306,491), Valle del Cauca (155,727), Atlántico (106,181), Cundinamarca (83,596), Santander (77,589), Bolívar (59,488) and Tolima (56,189) .

In Colombia, 114,550 infections remain active, corresponding to 5.96% of the total, while there are 1,754,222 recovered, that is, 91.22%.
Today, 57,886 samples were processed in the country, 41,869 of them PCR and 16,017 antigens, for a total of 9.18 million tests performed.