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Updated June 1st, 2020 at 01:16 IST

Bogota mayor plans to shut area as virus cases rise

The mayor of Colombia's capital Bogota is planning to shut down one of the city's largest neighbourhoods as COVID-19 cases there continue to rise.

Bogota mayor plans to shut area as virus cases rise
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The mayor of Colombia's capital Bogota is planning to shut down one of the city's largest neighbourhoods as COVID-19 cases there continue to rise.

Claudia Lopez said Saturday that starting June 1st, the Kennedy area – home to nearly 1.5 million people – will be under a strict quarantine.

Police and military will enforce the lockdown and no one will be allowed out, except to seek food or medical care or in case of an emergency.

Businesses like manufacturing that had been allowed to operate will be ordered closed.

Lopez said that testing for the virus will be doubled.

The Kennedy area was inaugurated by late US President John F. Kennedy, who visited Bogota in 1961 as part of the Alliance for Progress.

The area today has more nearly coronavirus 2,500 cases and hospitals there are reaching maximum capacity.

Lopez said that in the rest of Bogota, no new sectors of the economy will be allowed to reopen until at least the middle of June.

 

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Published June 1st, 2020 at 01:16 IST

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