The Ministry of Health reported, this Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 207 new cases of covid-19 in Colombia. In the last 24 hours, 21,565 tests were processed, of which 4,906 are PCR and 16,659 are antigens.
The report also noted that three Colombians died of the disease on the last day. In this way, the country reaches a total of 139,754 deaths due to the virus since the start of the pandemic.
By aggregating all the figures, Colombia reached a total of 6,089,998 infections, of which 3,013 are active cases and 5,923,443 correspond to positive cases that have already managed to overcome the disease.
There are 157 conglomerates in the country. The territories are: Amazon, Antioquia (Ituango), Arauca, Atlántico, Barranquilla, Bogota, Boyaca, Bolivar, Buenaventura, Caldas, Caqueta, Cartagena, Casanare, Cauca, Cesar, Choco, Cordoba, Cundinamarca, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, North Santander, Putumayo, Quindio, Risaralda, San Andres, Santa Marta, Santander, Sucre, Tolima , Valle, Vaupés, Vichada, Guaviare and Guainia.
This is how vaccination is going in the country
The most recent report from the Ministry of Health also points out that as of 11:59 on Sunday, April 17, 2022, a total of 81,993,006 doses of the vaccine against covid-19 had already been applied in Colombia.
According to the same report, the number of Colombians with the complete vaccination schedule, that is, those who have already received the two doses of the biological, currently amounts to 28,792,855 people, while 6,396,848 people have been immunized with single doses. Similarly, 11,046,742 booster doses have been applied.
Similarly, during the last day, a total of 10,400 vaccines were applied, of which 2,400 were for the second injection, while another 619 were single-dose.
Through Resolution 0451 of March 24, 2022, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection (MinSalud) made transfers to the program for the promotion, prevention, control and elimination of vector-borne diseases (VTE) to the departments and districts of the nation. Support for this system will be $32,556,178,000 in order to reduce the inequities reported in different parts of the country.
“The guidelines contribute to the national objective of reducing inequities, by providing coverage in VTE promotion and prevention actions for the population at risk,” said Iván Mauricio Cárdenas, Deputy Director of Communicable Diseases at MinSalud.
The official pointed out that both the resolution and the guidelines are governance mechanisms of the national program for the promotion, prevention and control of VTE and zoonoses. In addition, he said that the Government portfolio will continue the process of articulation with the zoonosis program, establishing among its priorities the implementation of its integrated management strategy and advancing the elimination of human rabies in the urban cycle.
On the other hand, the official stressed that considering that VTE accounts for more than 17% of all infectious diseases and cause one million deaths annually worldwide, specifically in Colombia, malaria, dengue, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis are persistent endemo-epidemic conditions. “These are presented in urban and rural transmission scenarios with the following characteristics per event.”
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