Tag: Bogotá 2017

President Duque announces that Colombia’s quarantine will be extended until the end of the month

As Colombia’s largest airline files for bankruptcy protection, we answer your questions about what it means.

Although many are working from home, some people have been working throughout the emergency. We spoke to a bicycle messenger, a key worker on the frontlines of the COVID response.

Recicladores and rubbish collectors are on the frontline too.

With less than a week to go until May 11 when the current quarantine is set to end, Colombian President Iván Duque announced that the obligatory lockdown will again be extended until May 25.

Key points on coronavirus in Colombia: 407 deaths and 9,456 cases, quarantine extended until May 25, crisis in the Amazonas and peak could be July or August