“This is bad.”Like much of South America, Colombia is being battered by a surging third wave of Covid-19. Hospital networks across the country have collapsed, with ICU occupancy in the three largest cities – Bogotá, Medellín and Cali – hovering above 97%. When Covid-19 hit Colombia in March 2020, El Tunal hospital had 32 ICU beds. An orderly brings an oxygen tank at El Tunal hospital, Bogotá. This is a catastrophe.”Ronny Suárez, a journalist who has covered the pandemic in Colombia for the newspaper El Tiempo every day since March 2020, went further.

Source: The Guardian June 22, 2021 09:00 UTC