Re-opening casinos. The large cities of Colombia, despite being the main pillars of the country's economy, where the companies that generate the most jobs are located, are also the biggest infection points in the country, making them unfeasible for simulated reopening areas.
To have a little context, it is important to know the global and national figures of COVID-19, in the world there have been 17.9 million people infected since the start of the pandemic, but 10.6 million of those almost eighteen have recovered. With a death factor of 685 thousand.
Colombia, in comparison to this, has had 306 thousand confirmed cases, with more than 50% recovered, 161 thousand people have recovered from this infection and 10,330 deaths nationwide.
In the capital, almost 50% of these cases have occurred, that is, 105 thousand confirmed cases of covid-19 and 48,624 recovered, which represents 25% of the national total.
While in Medellín it has a rate close to 66% lower than that of Bogotá, 35 thousand infected and more than 10 thousand recovered.
The Atlantic, meanwhile, where secondary and main cities such as Barranquilla and Cartagena are located, there is a record of 53,000 infected and 38,000 recovered.
These figures put these areas on red alert despite being much more prepared in medical equipment to serve citizens than the rest of the country's cities.
Therefore, if simulations are carried out to examine and analyze the behavior of the virus's spread factor in these cities, it would lead to a collapse of their health systems.
"The numbers do not lie, the reopening of casinos in the main cities will not be possible in the short term"
However, without having these reopening experiments, the hospitals in Medellín are at more than 73% of their capacity, while in Bogotá they are close to 93%. The most serious thing about this is not the occupation, but the effectiveness with which these places are working "62.3% of those who accessed the Bogotá hospital system died before entering these critical care areas," expert studies assure.
Finally, regarding when casinos will reopen in the main cities, it must be understood that these figures see an increase in daily cases when sectors of the economy that work in crowded places such as market places, city centers, among others.
