Colombia reports first coronavirus cases among Indigenous people
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation The first two cases of the coronavirus were confirmed among Colombia’s Indigenous people on Tuesday, local authorities said, fanning fears that the highly contagious disease could decimate vulnerable tribal communities. The cases were found in two people from the Yukpa group who live in dire poverty in a cluster of makeshift […]
POSTCARDS: AS VENEZUELA’S HEALTH SYSTEM CRUMBLES, PREGNANT WOMEN FLEE TO COLOMBIA
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of ThomsoN Reuters Foundation, reports on the plight of Venezuelan women forced to give birth in neighbouring Colombia as the healthcare infrastructure in their own nation crumbles…