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According to the Ministry of Health, to date, 14,513 cases remain active in the country.
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Nicholas Cortes February 26, 2022, 05:03 PM
According to the latest report from the Ministry of Health this Saturday, February 26, In Colombia, 2,078 new cases of covid-19 were reported. This, after 17,689 tests were processed (9,773 for PCR and 7,916 for antigens).
In the country, to date, 33,136,594 tests have been processed. Thus, Colombia reaches 6,060,793 confirmed cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began, in March 2020.
On the other hand, the report accounts for 97 more deaths from the virus. With this update, the total number of deaths in Colombia amounts to 138,598.
In the last 24 hours, in addition, 2,519 recovered patients were reported. Thus, there are already 5,886,065 patients who have overcome covid-19 in the country to date.
In total, there are 14,513 cases that remain active in Colombia.
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More than half of U.S. abortions are now done with pills rather than surgery, an upward trend that spiked during the pandemic with the increase in telemedicine, a report released Thursday said.
In 2020, pills accounted for 54% of all U.S. abortions, up from roughly 44% in 2019.
The preliminary numbers come from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. The group, by contacting providers, collects more comprehensive abortion data than the U.S. government.
Use of abortion pills has been rising since 2000 when the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone, the main drug used in medication abortions.
The new increase “is not surprising, especially during COVID,” said Dr. Marji Gold, a family physician and abortion provider in New York City. She said patients seeking abortions at her clinic have long chosen the pills over the medical procedure.
The pandemic prompted a rise in telemedicine and FDA action that allowed abortion pills to be mailed so patients could skip in-person visits to get them. Those changes could have contributed to the increase in use, said Guttmacher researcher Rachel Jones.
The FDA made the change permanent last December, meaning millions of women can get prescriptions via online consultations and receive the pills through the mail. That move led to stepped-up efforts by abortion opponents to seek additional restrictions on medication abortions through state legislatures.
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The procedure includes mifepristone, which blocks a hormone needed for pregnancy to continue, followed one or two days later by misoprostol, a drug that causes cramping that empties the womb. The combination is approved for use within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, although some health care providers offer it in the second trimester, a practice called off-label use.
So far this year, 16 state legislatures have proposed bans or restrictions on medication abortion, according to the Guttmacher report.
It notes that in 32 states, medication abortions must be prescribed by physicians even though other health care providers including physician assistants can prescribe other medicines. And mailing abortion pills to patients is banned in Arizona, Arkansas and Texas, the report said.
According to the World Health Organization, about 73 million abortions are performed each year. About 630,000 abortions were reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, although information from some states is missing. Guttmacher’s last comprehensive abortion report dates to 2017; the data provided Thursday came from an update due out later this year.
Global numbers on the rates of medication versus surgical abortions are limited. Data from England and Wales show that medication abortions have outpaced surgical abortions for about 10 years.
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Two of the wounded were taken to the San Gil clinic and the others to the Socorro Hospital.
Six Invías contractors and two from the Santander electricity company were affected.
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Six workers from the Concession that is in charge of road works on the road between San Gil and Socorro and two workers from the Santander electricity company were injured after a box with explosives that was abandoned in this section of the Bogotá – Bucaramanga road detonated. .
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According to Colonel Franklin Cruz, commander of the Santander Police, “Invías personnel moved the box with explosives and as a result we have 8 people injured,” said the colonel.
Two wounded were taken to the San Gil clinic, while the other six were sent to the Socorro hospital.
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“They are wounds, hemorrhages, burns, closed chest traumas and a compromise in one of the patients with one eye. They are being treated in health centers,” said Duwing Villamizar, of the Civil Defense.
The injured are from San Gil and were on the road doing road maintenance work.
The governor of Santander rejected the fact and convened an urgent security council.
“I totally reject the act perpetrated in the last few minutes on the San Gil-El Socorro road. We are not advancing by instilling terrorism, but with work and dialogue. All my solidarity with the citizens who were injured. I immediately call a Security Council” Mauricio Aguilar said.
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In the Technological Resources Company of Cali (ERT) made a call to the people of Valle del Cauca to denounce the theft of fiber optics from the telecommunications network, which has left millions in losses and affected its users.
In this entity they ask that the population communicate to the lines: 018000520620 or 6202020.
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According to what was stated by Edwin López Bouza, manager of ERT, the losses generated by the theft of the optical fiber are affecting the resources that have been established for the expansion of the service, but not for the replacement.
“In 2021 we had thefts that exceeded 600 million pesos. It is more or less 5 percent of the income we have from the internet service. It is a considerable value because they are resources that are not used for expansion but to replace something that was already done,” said López Bouza.
Likewise, he mentioned that last year there were cases in Cartago, Pradera, Buga and in the district of Amaime, in Palmira, causing an affectation for users due to the interruption of the service.
“With these cuts, a perfectly five or six hours without service. ATMs, stores and even a virtual job interview can be canceled as a result of this. It’s not just the economic cost,” she indicated.
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ERT operators expect the community to join and make complaints to the established telephone lines. Likewise, it can be done through the Police hotline 123; This is for cases in which it is necessary to notify about the presence of people without ERT identification who manipulate the company’s infrastructure.
“From the government of Clara Luz Roldán we make every effort to make technological resources available to the community, we do hard work with the police and Caleños. For this reason, we want to invite you to help report any news”, added the manager.
But, ERT users are not the only ones affected by fiber optic theft. Those of the Municipal Companies of Cali (Emcali) join these complaints.
“Our fiber optic cabling was stolen in the north of Cali. That left us without television, landline and internet service for about three months,” said a resident of a building on North 34th Street with 2BIS, in the San Vicente neighborhood of the Valle del Cauca capital.
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There are already several face-to-face procedures that are beginning to be transferred to the digital medium, in order to provide a better service. In this case, being part of innovation and digital progress, Cali continues to position itself as one of the smartest cities.
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In addition to making requests related to the maintenance of public lighting on the social networks of the Municipal Companies of CaliFrom now on, Caleños can streamline their requirements for irregularities so that the process is easier.
Citizens can now report damage through the website www.alumbradocali.comand these requests will be answered in a maximum time of 72 hours.
“The main benefit of this new digital channel is that people no longer have to file petitions related to damage to public lighting at the single window of the District Administrative Center,” he said. Laura Ordonez Cardona, engineer of the Special Administrative Unit of Public Services (UAESP).
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In the same way, Ordóñez added that the page will allow to have a channeling line of the requests that are presented during the 24 hours of the day.
This is how now the damage reports must be determined according to the type of anomaly that the service presents. Then, on the map that the web page shows, the location or pole number must be identified, since between more details are registered in the “Report description” box, the easier it will be to attend to the request.
After registration, users can Consult at any time the status of your request, just by indicating the ID number or the filing number.
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On the new website are classified the 10 novelties that can be reported; such as the lack of installation, repair or change of luminaires, lighting obstructed by trees, problems with a public lighting pole that is about to fall or the collision of vehicles against them, exposed cables with the possibility of an electrical accident and vandalism to lighting elements
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The U.S. needs a nimble, multipronged strategy and Cabinet-level leadership to counter its festering overdose epidemic, a bipartisan congressional commission advises.
With vastly powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl driving record overdose deaths, the scourge of opioids awaits after the COVID-19 pandemic finally recedes, a shift that public health experts expect in the months ahead.
“This is one of our most pressing national security, law enforcement and public health challenges, and we must do more as a nation and a government to protect our most precious resource — American lives,” the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking said in a 70-page report released Tuesday to Congress, President Joe Biden and the American people.
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The report envisions a dynamic strategy. It would rely on law enforcement and diplomacy to shut down sources of chemicals used to make synthetic opioids. It would offer treatment and support for people who become addicted, creating pathways that can lead back to productive lives. And it would invest in research to better understand addiction’s grip on the human brain and to develop treatments for opioid use disorder.
The global coronavirus pandemic has overshadowed the American opioid epidemic for the last two years, but recent news that overdose deaths surpassed 100,000 in one year caught the public’s attention. Politically, federal legislation to address the opioid crisis won support across the partisan divide during both the Obama and Trump administrations.
Rep. David Trone, D-Md., a co-chair of the panel that produced the report, said he believes that support is still there, and that the issue appeals to Biden’s pragmatic side. “The president has been crystal clear,” Trone said. “These are two major issues in America: addiction and mental health.”
The U.S. government’s record is also clear. It has been waging a losing “war on drugs” for decades.
The stakes are much higher now with the widespread availability of fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller 80 to 100 times more powerful than morphine. It can be baked into illicit pills made to look like prescription painkillers or anti-anxiety medicines. The chemical raw materials are produced mainly in China. Criminal networks in Mexico control the production and shipment to the U.S.
FILE – This photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Phoenix Division shows one of four containers holding some of the 30,000 fentanyl pills the agency seized in Tempe, Ariz., in August 2017.
Federal anti-drug strategy traditionally emphasized law enforcement and long prison sentences. But that came to be seen as tainted by racial bias and counter-productive because drug use is treatable. The value of treatment has recently has gained recognition with anti-addiction medicines in wide use alongside older strategies like support groups.
The report endorsed both law enforcement and treatment, working in sync with one another.
“Through its work, the commission came to recognize the impossibility of reducing the availability of illegal synthetic opioids through efforts focused on supply alone,” the report said.
“Real progress can come only by pairing illicit synthetic opioid supply disruption with decreasing the domestic U.S. demand for these drugs,” it added.
The report recommends what it calls five “pillars” for government action:
Elevating the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy to act as the nerve center for far-flung federal efforts, and restoring Cabinet rank to its director.
Disrupting the supply of drugs through better coordinated law enforcement actions.
Reducing the demand for illicit drugs through treatment and by efforts to mitigate the harm to people addicted. Treatment programs should follow science-based “best practices.”
Using diplomacy to enlist help from other governments in cutting off the supply of chemicals that criminal networks use to manufacture fentanyl.
Developing surveillance and data analysis tools to spot new trends in illicit drug use before they morph into major problems for society.
Trone said it’s going to take cooperation from both political parties. “We have to take this toxic atmosphere in Washington and move past it,” he said. “Because 100,000 people, that’s husbands, sisters, mothers, fathers. As a country, we are better than that.”
A new attack with explosives occurred this Friday night in the city of CaliCauca’s Valley.
Around 7 p.m., the authorities reported an explosion on Calle 23 with transversal 25, in the vicinity of the Comfandi del Prado.
According to the version of the authorities, it was a grenade-type explosive device that was launched against police patrol cars that were part of the security schemes arranged by the Colombia team party.
Two police officers and a civilian were injured after the attack that was reported in the south of the capital of Valle.
“It is a device that is planned whenever there are soccer matches in Comfandi. A motorcycle passes, a subject gets off, approaches and throws an explosive device, apparently a grenade, which wounds two of our police officers, two Esmad uniformed They are there without any kind of weapons,” said Carlos Soler, Secretary of Security for Cali.
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The injured people were transferred to the Colombia Clinic to receive the necessary care.
The mayor of Cali, Jorge Ivan Ospina, confirmed that the affected people have minor injuries and there are no deaths after the fact. Information that was also confirmed by the Secretary of Security, who is present at the scene of the attack.
“He wounds them with shrapnel. Fortunately they are stable,” said Soler.
In addition, the authorities reported that the alleged attacker had already been captured and is in the process of judicialization.
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The Security Secretary also announced that a reward of up to 50 million pesos whoever delivers information that allows the intellectual authors of the attack reported this Friday to be captured.
“A reward will be given, on the instructions of the mayor, of up to 50 million for identification, individualization, and the appropriate arrests for the guarantee and safety of the population,” Soler said.
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In his Twitter account, the mayor also condemned the attack and referred to the reward that will be delivered by those responsible for the grenade attack.
“We condemn the grenade attack suffered by members of the police in the Comfandi del Prado. Fortunately for everyone, there are no deaths and the injuries are minor. There are arrests, we remind the opinion that we have a fund of 5 billion for those who provide information,” the official wrote on his Twitter account.
We condemn the grenade attack suffered by members of the police in the Comfandi del Prado, fortunately for all there are no deaths and the injuries are minor There are catches, we remind the opinion that we have a fund of 5 billion for those who provide information pic.twitter.com/uLrjQarX97
“This flagrantly violates International Humanitarian Law because they put the civilian population at risk and there is indeed a wounded civilian. This is a violation of the Rome Statute for acts of terrorism,” added the Secretary of Security.
This is not the only one terrorist attack that the city of Cali has suffered in the month of January. On January 7, a truck carrying Esmad uniforms was also attacked with an explosive device.
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In fact, Soler reported that in recent days 2 grenades were seized in the Siloé sector, three in another raid and more than 200 kilos of explosives.
Comfandi El Prado sector, south of the city of Cali.
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Comfandi El Prado sector, south of the city of Cali.
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Comfandi El Prado sector, south of the city of Cali.
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Comfandi El Prado sector, south of the city of Cali.
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Jose Antonio Minota Hurtado January 29, 2022, 05:55 PM
Inhabitants of the rural area of Timbiquí (Cauca) denounce the murder of four people by an armed group.
The bodies appeared at different points in the jungle area of the municipality. The mayor of Timbiquí, Yadira Amu, details that according to information from the community, on Tuesday, in a fight in the district of Cheté “a fight took place in a bar where someone fired a weapon and three people were injured and three others were killed.”
He maintains that the next day in the town of Santa María there was a public dispute in which armed men intervened and took several people whose bodies appeared murdered on Thursday in different parts of the area, their hands tied and with signs of torture.
The president admits that as a local authority it has been difficult for her to enter to rescue the corpses due to the presence of armed groups outside the law.
According to Indepaz, this would be the 13th massacre so far this year.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated human trafficking, the U.S. State Department said in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report released Tuesday.
“This year’s Trafficking in Persons Report sends a strong message to the world that global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and enduring discriminatory policies and practices, have a disproportionate effect on individuals already oppressed by other injustices,” U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in the report’s introduction.
“These challenges further compound existing vulnerabilities to exploitation, including human trafficking,” he said.
In the report, Blinken calls for other countries to join the United States to improve “our collective efforts to comprehensively address human trafficking.”
He said doing so requires mitigating “harmful practices and policies that cause socioeconomic or political vulnerabilities that traffickers often prey on.”
The report said the COVID-19 pandemic has brought “unprecedented repercussions for human rights and economic development globally, including in human trafficking.”
“Governments across the world diverted resources toward the pandemic, often at the expense of anti-trafficking efforts, resulting in decreased protection measures and service provision for victims, reduction of preventative efforts, and hindrances to investigations and prosecutions of traffickers,” the report said.
The report explained that those involved in anti-trafficking efforts “found ways to adapt and forged new relationships to overcome the challenges.” It added that traffickers were also adept in altering their methods.
Some specific cases mentioned in the report include examples in India and Nepal in which young poor girls left school to help support their families due to the pandemic’s economic impact. Some, the report said, were forced into marriage for money.
The report cites incidents in the United States, the United Kingdom and Uruguay in which landlords forced female tenants who were economically hurt by the pandemic to have sex with them when the tenant could not pay rent.
In Haiti, Niger and Mali, “gangs” working in camps for displaced people used lax security caused by the pandemic to force residents into sex-for-money acts.
In Myanmar (formerly Burma), which has been roiled by COVID-19 and political unrest, the report said 94% of households saw a decline in income, leaving some members vulnerable to sex trafficking.
“If there is one thing we have learned in the last year, it is that human trafficking does not stop during a pandemic,” Kari Johnstone, senior official and principal deputy director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, said in the report’s introduction.
“The concurrence of the increased number of individuals at risk, traffickers’ ability to capitalize on competing crises, and the diversion of resources to pandemic response efforts has resulted in an ideal environment for human trafficking to flourish and evolve,” Johnstone said.
