Colombia once again exceeds 6,000 daily cases of COVID-19 after almost 5 months

COVID-19 infections continue to grow in Colombia that this Wednesday added 6,326 infections, the highest number since 6,980 on August 6, which confirms that the country, as the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, assured today, is entering a fourth peak of the pandemic due to the omicron variant.

With the data of the day, the country accumulates 5,138,603 cases, of which the number of active ones rose to 24,997 and the number of patients that appear as recovered to 4,965,217.

The Ministry of Health also reported that the 33 deaths today, of which 30 correspond to previous days, occurred in Bogotá (8); Antioquia (7); North of Santander, Quindío and Valle del Cauca (4); Cauca (2), and Arauca, Boyacá, Huila and Santander (1).

As for the new infections, Antioquia, with 1,864; Valle del Cauca, with 1,587, and Bogotá, with 1,541, account for more than three-quarters of the number of reported infections.

Today 69,825 diagnostic samples were processed, 27,289 of them PCR and 42,536 antigens, for a total of 29.47 million tests performed.

After a brief reduction in the vaccination rate for the Christmas weekend, 238,801 serums against COVID-19 were applied on Monday, of which 104,010 correspond to second doses and 14,372 to the single-dose formula of the pharmaceutical company Janssen.

With this, there are already 63,992,507 vaccines applied, 27,992,589 patients with the complete scheme and 3,081,896 the reinforcement doses given.

Precisely on the afternoon of this Wednesday, Colombia received its last shipment of vaccines for 2021, a batch of 200,070 doses of Pfizer that will be destined for pregnant women.

With this, the country closed with 84,180,374 sera received for the National Vaccination Plan (PNV).

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Minister Ruiz said that Colombia is entering a new peak of COVID-19 infections due to the omicron variant, so the health authorities will take a series of measures and recommendations to address the situation.

“The genomic diagnosis is a matter of days, but now we have to take a series of measures and recommendations especially to be able to address this new variant in the country and its affectation,” said Ruiz.

The minister assured that the factors that allow them to affirm that the probability that the country is entering a new peak are epidemiological conditions, reports from health services and the clinical picture of those who go to hospitals to be treated for COVID -19.