COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia
The COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia was a part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Colombia on 6 March 2020.
| COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia | |
|---|---|
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Colombia |
| First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Index case | Bogotá |
| Arrival date | 6 March 2020 (4 years, 1 month and 2 weeks) |
| Confirmed cases | 6,384,735 |
| Recovered | 6,216,921 |
Deaths | 142,727 |
| Fatality rate | 2.25% |
| Government website | |
| Boletín Epidemiológico | |
Up to January 2022, four waves affected Colombia: Infections and deaths peaked in August 2020, again in January 2021 following the Christmas holidays, reached new highs between April and June 2021, and a fourth wave was confirmed in late December 2021 following the arrival of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
"Confirmed COVID-19" was the primary cause of death in Colombia in 2020, where the virus caused over 50,000 fatalities by the end of the calendar year. An additional 13,000 deaths in Colombia that year were suspected to be caused by COVID-19, making "suspected COVID-19" the third most common cause of death. The "confirmed COVID-19" death toll doubled during the first half of 2021, reaching 100,000 before the end of June (including all deaths from the beginning of the pandemic).