Post by scumbuster on Mar 22, 2020 13:17:26 GMT -5
Colombia coronavirus cases at 210, hundreds trapped inside El Dorado airport
As Colombia’s capital enters day three of an obligatory quarantine drill that was to end at 11:59 pm on Monday and measure that was extended to coincide with the nationwide quarantine announced by President Iván Duque, the number of COVID-19 cases on Sunday totals 210.
With the announcement last week of the four-day “quarantine simulation” thousands of travelers filled Bogotá’s central bus terminal heading to departments where hours after the Bogotá had enacted the drill, followed the example of Mayor Claudia López and imposed their own curfews coinciding with a long-week holiday.
The decision by the mayoralty to extend an extra day the decree that has confined Bogotá’s nine million inhabitants to their homes, allowing residents to only walk out on the streets to reach supermarkets and pharmacies, will leave travelers stranded in the regions without being able to re-enter the capital unless that they can justify to authorities their return as toll booths have been closed on all major roads leading to the capital.
During a televised press conference Saturday, Mayor López reassured Bogotanos that despite restrictive measures to mobility and economic impact a more than 3-week long quarantine will have on the city, “everyone will have a roof over the heads, everyone will have food,” she said.
The governor of Cundinamarca Nicolás García highlighted the “exemplary behavior” of the department’s inhabitants, who have also been under curfew since Friday, to help contain the spread of coronavirus in regions of the country ill-equipped to deal with growing numbers of infected patients.
As the global tally of COVID-19 surpassed 300,000 with a death toll of 13,400 on Saturday the first death in Colombia from coronavirus was confirmed by the Ministry of Health. Arnold de Jesús Iregui, a 58-year old taxi driver in Cartagena was admitted to Cartagena del Mar clinic on March 13 and presented early symptoms of COVID-19. According to the Ministry of Health, Iregui drove several Italian tourists to historic sites in the port city. Iregui suffered from diabetes and hypertension. His sister and care provider also tested positive for coronavirus.
On Saturday, as announced by President Iván Duque with the State of Emergency, the country’s largest airport El Dorado closed to international air traffic. With Colombia’s land, sea and air borders closed hundreds of international travelers remain stranded inside the international departure terminal, sleeping on 200 portable beds donated by the airport. Among the foreigners are Mexicans, Peruvians, Dominicans, Argentines. In a show of solidarity with stranded passengers, the commercial establishments are donating food and hot drinks until foreign governments determine how to repatriate citizens trapped inside host countries.
thecitypaperbogota.com/news/colombia-coronavirus-cases-at-210-hundreds-trapped-inside-el-dorado-airport/24180
As Colombia’s capital enters day three of an obligatory quarantine drill that was to end at 11:59 pm on Monday and measure that was extended to coincide with the nationwide quarantine announced by President Iván Duque, the number of COVID-19 cases on Sunday totals 210.
With the announcement last week of the four-day “quarantine simulation” thousands of travelers filled Bogotá’s central bus terminal heading to departments where hours after the Bogotá had enacted the drill, followed the example of Mayor Claudia López and imposed their own curfews coinciding with a long-week holiday.
The decision by the mayoralty to extend an extra day the decree that has confined Bogotá’s nine million inhabitants to their homes, allowing residents to only walk out on the streets to reach supermarkets and pharmacies, will leave travelers stranded in the regions without being able to re-enter the capital unless that they can justify to authorities their return as toll booths have been closed on all major roads leading to the capital.
During a televised press conference Saturday, Mayor López reassured Bogotanos that despite restrictive measures to mobility and economic impact a more than 3-week long quarantine will have on the city, “everyone will have a roof over the heads, everyone will have food,” she said.
The governor of Cundinamarca Nicolás García highlighted the “exemplary behavior” of the department’s inhabitants, who have also been under curfew since Friday, to help contain the spread of coronavirus in regions of the country ill-equipped to deal with growing numbers of infected patients.
As the global tally of COVID-19 surpassed 300,000 with a death toll of 13,400 on Saturday the first death in Colombia from coronavirus was confirmed by the Ministry of Health. Arnold de Jesús Iregui, a 58-year old taxi driver in Cartagena was admitted to Cartagena del Mar clinic on March 13 and presented early symptoms of COVID-19. According to the Ministry of Health, Iregui drove several Italian tourists to historic sites in the port city. Iregui suffered from diabetes and hypertension. His sister and care provider also tested positive for coronavirus.
On Saturday, as announced by President Iván Duque with the State of Emergency, the country’s largest airport El Dorado closed to international air traffic. With Colombia’s land, sea and air borders closed hundreds of international travelers remain stranded inside the international departure terminal, sleeping on 200 portable beds donated by the airport. Among the foreigners are Mexicans, Peruvians, Dominicans, Argentines. In a show of solidarity with stranded passengers, the commercial establishments are donating food and hot drinks until foreign governments determine how to repatriate citizens trapped inside host countries.
thecitypaperbogota.com/news/colombia-coronavirus-cases-at-210-hundreds-trapped-inside-el-dorado-airport/24180