National Institute of Health

Why are children less affected by the virus?

Statistics show children as one of the populations with the fewest records for infections with Covid-19. A study recently published by the specialized journal Nature … Read more

Covid-19 affected six out of ten Barranquilleros

About six out of ten Barranquilleros were infected with Covid-19. This was reported by the National Institute of Health (INS) after announcing the preliminary results … Read more

Why are Covid-19 cases increasing in Barranquilla?

Given the concern that the number of daily cases of Covid-19 reported by the National Institute of Health, the mayor Jaime Pumarejo, in the company … Read more

Elipse-col, the seroprevalence study technique in Barranquilla

This Monday, the National Institute of Health (INS) – together with local authorities, academic and research institutions – released the pilot of the Seroprevalence Study … Read more

The Atlantic exceeds a thousand deaths from COVID-19

For about ten days, Pablo Suárez was fighting for his life against an invisible enemy on a lonely intensive care stretcher in a clinical center … Read more

Due to the expansion of ICUs, more health personnel are required

In Colombia there are already 1,842 health professionals who have been infected with COVID-19. Of those, 1,591 have been recovered and 232 remain in isolation, … Read more

There will be an increase in the presence of the public force in municipalities

The Governor of the Atlantic, Elsa Noguera, insisted on her call for citizens to extreme self-care measures against the spread of the coronavirus and asked … Read more