Colombia tops 500,000 Covid-19 cases after record daily increase
Colombia surpassed the 500,000 mark in nationwide coronavirus cases Wednesday after the country registered a record 13,056 new cases in the past 24 hours, according to the country's health ministry.
This brings the country's total case count to at least 502,178.
There were also 360 new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, raising the national death toll to 15,979, the ministry reported.
This comes after Colombia's health ministry approved a plan this morning to partially resume domestic flights from 10 cities.
Colombia joins Brazil, Mexico and Peru to become the fourth country in Latin America to top 500,000 total Covid-19 cases, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins Universityhttps://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-19-20-intl/index.html
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