COVID 19 PLACES: COLOMBIA
National Health Institute
odonia101. Instituto Nacional de Salud -INS- (National Health Institute) is one of the State-funded leading health and biomedicine institutions in charge of: i. Developing and managing scientific knowledge on health and biomedicine, in order to contribute the health conditions of people; ii. Researching health and biomedicine through basic and applied sciences; iii. Monitoring health safety; iv. Act as a national laboratory of reference.
2. During the beginning of Covid 19, INS has monitored the cases in Colombia, analyzed positive results from national labs, organize and systematize datasets; inform citizens about infection numbers and projections, and recommend epidemiological models to the central government.
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Cancelling classes in schools and universities
odonia10One week before the national lockdown, the Ministry of Health ordered the cancellation of any massive events with more than 50 people, cancelling classes in Universities and schools, and avoiding flights from countries with high rates of virus.
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This timeline tracks how California state and local governments tackled the evolving COVID-19 crisis since the first case was detected.