Colombia

Residents of Colombia’s three largest cities woke up to another weekend-long curfew on Saturday as the coronavirus has hospitals on the brink of collapse. The curfew took force a day… The post Colombia’s main cities shut down as COVID threatens to collapse healthcare appeared first on Colombia News | Colombia Reports.

As the world reached the grim milestone of 2 million COVID-19 deaths, both Colombia and its capital Bogotá registered record single-day increases in new infections.

Colombian immigration officials detained three U.S citizens for attempting to leave Cartagena with falsified PCR tests. Overland borders remain closed until March 1.

President-elect Joe Biden wants to end the United States’ so-called “War on Drugs,” which may force Colombia’s President Ivan Duque to drastically revise domestic drug policies. Duque gladly returned to… The post Joe Biden and Colombia | Part 2: ending the ‘War on Drugs’ appeared first on Colombia News | Colombia Reports.

Colombia joins a host of South American nations barred entry to the UK over concerns of contagion with the Brazilian variant of coronavirus.

President Duque has not ruled out a return to a nationwide quarantine should citizens be indisciplined with obligatory coronavirus measures.

The repatriation of former paramilitary warlord Hernan Giraldo, a.k.a. “The Drill,” is causing unrest in northern Colombia where some of his children are engaged in a turf war. Giraldo was… The post Fear in northern Colombia over former paramilitary leader’s return appeared first on Colombia News | Colombia Reports.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a game-changer for Colombia’s cocaine trade and global counternarcotics efforts. While US president Donald Trump visited the Mexican border, authorities in the Netherlands said Tuesday… The post What COVID taught Colombia about cocaine | Part 1: the tsunami appeared first on Colombia News | Colombia Reports.

Colombia’s health ministry revealed the first specifics of the unprecedented campaign that seeks to vaccinate the country’s inhabitants against COVID-19. In a media presentation, Health Minister Fernando Ruiz revealed how… The post Colombia reveals first specifics of COVID vaccination campaign appeared first on Colombia News | Colombia Reports.

A U.S citizen who knowingly flew on a commercial flight after testing positive for COVID-19 was detained in Bogotá Wednesday by health authorities for violating health regulations.

Gonzalo Cardona is credited for having saved the rare Yellow-eared Parrot from extinction and species whose survival depends on the wax palm.

A variant of coronavirus unique to Colombia has been identified by the INS and comes as the government rolled out the national vaccination program.

A dramatic surge in new coronavirus infection across Bogotá has placed the city's hospital system in Red Alert. Quarantines and curfews in effect starting Thursday, January 7.

Three Bogotá localities have returned to strict lockdowns as cases in the capital surge and ICU occupancy reached 85%.

President Iván Duque says undocumented Venezuelans will be denied access in a move denounced as unethical and impracticalColombia will refuse to administer coronavirus vaccines to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan refugees within its borders, President Iván Duque has announced, in a move which stunned public health experts and prompted condemnation from […]