The areas where this new quarantine will be strictly applied will be: Suba, Engativá and Usaquén, which registered more than 100 new daily cases.
This Sunday, January 3, 2021, the mayor in charge of Bogotá, Luis Ernesto Gómez, announced that more than 2 million people will return to strict confinement. The Colombian capital registered a significant increase in positive cases of covid-19, last weekend.
The new quarantine in Bogotá will last until January 18 and will be strictly applied in the towns of Suba, Engativá and Usaquén. The 3 neighborhoods registered more than 100 new daily cases and are part of a second wave of Covid-19 infections.
The areas that enter the new confinement must respect a curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. Only “essential” businesses will be open in these locations.
Bogotá entered a confinement for the first time, on March 20, 2020 and it lasted until August 26, 2020. This was one of the measures taken by the national and local government, to stop the contagion of coronavirus in the country.
In the Colombian capital, only workers from strategic sectors and one member per family may be mobilized to make purchases of food, medicine or basic necessities.
Colombia has registered 1.67 million infections and almost 44.000 deaths from Covid-19, since the pandemic began, according to local health authorities.
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