Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “COVID cases surge in Latin America amid vaccine roll out” – below is their description.
COVID-19 cases continue to spike across Latin America, with a number of countries seeing daily records of new infections and deaths.
Intensive care units across the region are under growing strain even as some countries prepare to receive the vaccine.
Amid fears of the patchy distribution of shots and delays, the holiday season also threatens to bring more surges in the coming weeks.
Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti reports from Bogota, Colombia.
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Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel
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In This Story: Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a transcontinental country largely in the north of South America, with territories in North America. Colombia is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, the northwest by Panama, the south by Ecuador and Peru, the east by Venezuela, the southeast by Brazil, and the west by the Pacific Ocean.
The capital is Bogotá, the country’s largest city. With over 50 million inhabitants Colombia is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse countries in the world. The Republic of Colombia was declared in 1886. Panama seceded in 1903.
Colombia’s territory encompasses Amazon rainforest, highlands, grasslands, and deserts, and it is the only country in South America with coastlines and islands along both the Atlantic and Pacific.