*Climate crisis affects highly populated areas where yellow fever mortality is 50%
*Govt. to decree economic and health emergency in the event of a possible increase in cases of infections
*Yellow fever virus is affecting departments where it was not previously observed
*Govt. to decree economic and health emergency in the event of a possible increase in cases of infections
*Yellow fever virus is affecting departments where it was not previously observed
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00:00In other news, Colombia is on alert due to a rise in yellow fever cases.
00:04In this context, President Gustavo Petro announced his intention to decree an economic and sanitary emergency in the country.
00:11Our correspondent Hernando Vara with the details.
00:17These vaccination points are located at the transportation terminal in the capital city of Bogota.
00:22In view of the alarm caused by the increase in cases of yellow fever in Colombia and its high temperature and humidity zones.
00:30Travelers to these regions are coming to Colombia as a protective measure and for fear of contracting it through the bite of the mosquito that transmits it.
00:42I am panicking because if I get yellow fever, I know that it is deadly.
00:46I know that there is an epidemic of more than 50 percent of patients have died.
00:49So the truth is that I am going on a trip to Vallejapar and I am going to get vaccinated.
00:57An emergency situation that the president warned through social networks.
01:03He said that the disadvantage is presented by the climate crisis, lethal and densely populated areas such as cities.
01:10He added that it has a mortality rate of 50 percent and that out of 74 human cases discovered, 32 people have died.
01:18Most of them in the department of Talima.
01:21In another tweet, he said that in the Colombian capital, there may be several cases due to the travel of Bogota citizens to risk areas during Easter week.
01:29A situation that must be counteracted through prevention, not only in Bogota, but throughout the country.
01:35It is a virus transmitted by jungle mosquitoes of the genus Hemagogus or Cebethes and it is a cycle that is there in the jungles, in the forests that occurs between monkey and mosquito.
01:47Occasionally, when people enter these forests or parks, for example, where this zoonosis occurs naturally, they can also acquire this disease.
02:00The mosquitoes can bite them and they can also get yellow fever.
02:03In view of this situation, the Colombian president announced that in the next few hours, he would decree an economic emergency and then a sanitary emergency.
02:19In view of the probability of an increase in the number of cases of contagion and the possibility of it spreading to densely populated cities, the Department of Cundinamarca has already declared a state of alert due to the outbreak of yellow fever.
02:34The economic emergency seeks to obtain the resources to deal with this situation, given the fiscal crisis that the state is going through and that the president himself has recognized and has given his explanations as to why we are in the situation we are in.
02:53This decree would allow the attainment of extraordinary resources in a quick and efficient manner, which is what is needed at this moment to deal with this crisis, to supply the hospitals and clinics with the necessary medicines and equipment to avoid a major crisis in the future.
03:11The virus is having an incidence in departments where there had been no history of yellow fever, suggesting an indicator of possible infection in non-endemic areas.
03:23Which is why the vaccine is essential to counteract contagion in high temperature areas.