(CNN Español) – The National Institute of Health (INS) of Colombia, under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, has confirmed its existence in a communicated which detected the first death in the country of a person contagious with the covid-19 variant identified in Brazil.
Sanitary authorities have confirmed that the accident occurred on the 28th of January and that he was an adult mayor, resident in Bogotá.
“The case is pending in a study due to the fact that a contact was made with a positive prior family contact, to whom it is providing information,” the INS stated.
Bogotá’s alcaldesa, Claudia López, demonstrated this Saturday at a public event that is a “reality” that the new variants of covid-19 are in the Colombian capital.
Ensure that the person failing for reasons related to the variant identified in Brazil does not live in Leticia, the capital of the Amazon, facing Brazil.
“The mayor is in charge of the epidemiological process in order to establish how these people are being protected and to limit the extent to which they are expanding,” said López.
The INS has confirmed the first of 30 of the first covid-19 cases with the variant detected in Brazil (P1), both Colombian citizens.
The first case, a female of 39 years resident in Leticia, capital of the department of Amazonas, presents only 10 years of age and positive by covid-19 in a test of PCR of 15 years. The second case corresponds to a man of 79 years belonging to an indigenous ethnic group of the Amazons, who presented every 2 years and five days after being directed to a municipal health center to conduct a consultation. He was hospitalized in an intermediate care unit with a diagnosis of “respiratory infection caused by covid-19”.
Hasta este sábado, Colombia, reported a total of 2,299,082 coros del nuevo coronavirus and a total of 61,046 kills for causes related to the virus.