Colombia has reported its first coronavirus death, the country’s health minister announced Saturday, with the central American nation recording 210 infections.
Fernando Ruiz said the patient was “a 58-year-old man, living in the town of Cartagene, working as a taxi driver, who transported two foreign citizens in his vehicle in the past few days.”
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He died on March 16, but the cause was not established until several days later, the minister said.
Colombians will go into obligatory self-isolation for almost three weeks from Tuesday evening in an attempt to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
AFP
