BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Colombia reached 1 million cases of coronavirus showed on Saturday, the time the Latin American country will report this number in less than a week.
The country of another 50 million existing people experienced a spike in cases in August and has since declined, but it continues to register around 8,000 new infections consistent with the day.
Epidemiologists expect a strong build-up until the end of the year, a diagnosis that has put medical personnel such as nurse Freddy Harvey Rodriguez and his medical son in one of Bogota’s largest hospitals in trouble.
“The concern is that it’s going to get worse,” Rodriguez said recently.
Argentina reached 1 million cases shown on Monday and Peru and Mexico are expected to succeed on the bleak scoreboard in the coming weeks. Brazil ranks third in the world for the number of virus cases and had 1 million infections in June.
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Overall, Latin America continues to have some of the highest workloads, diagnosing more than 100,000 infections shown every day, the World Health Organization reports that Europe is now seeing an even larger number when it attacks a wave of viruses.
Experts say the region is experiencing a table effect in which cases remain the first rather than falling dramatically. In several countries, the virus has begun to spread to spaces that had in the past recorded few cases.
“The behavior of the virus is different,” said Dr. Luis Jorge Hernández, professor of public conditioning at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. “These are wonderful resurgences, but new outbreaks. “
In Colombia, a six-month blockade helped curb contagion and gave officials time to increase the number of beds of extensive care. kind of disastrous scenes observed elsewhere in the domain of patients covered up in front of hospitals, suffering to locate a bed.
However, the position is high: nearly 30,000 other people died, adding several medical staff members and colleagues from Rodriguez. A recount of a medical arrangement estimates that nearly two hundred doctors and other staff have died.
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Rodriguez said his son spent more than $100 to buy protective devices at the beginning of the pandemic. The couple are still worried about getting sick. Both paintings at Kennedy Hospital in Bogota, in a giant painting class neighborhood. The region has the highest total number of instances in the bustling capital.
Dr. Camilo Rodríguez said he arrives at the paintings in a uniform and adapts when treating patients with COVID-19. He has lost a close friend and mentor to the virus and is afraid to spread it to his family.
As a precaution, a shower is taken in the hospital before returning home.
“Infecting me would infect my family,” he said.
The virus’s trajectory in Latin America is the result of weak public fitness systems, social points such as poverty, and poor government decisions at first, which resulted in limited testing and little tactile research. the 10 countries with the highest number of instances in the world.