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Colombia’s Transport Minister: International Flights Banned Through August 31

Medellin Herald May 21, 2020

Colombia Transport Minister Ángela María Orozco announced last night (May 20) in a nationally televised presentation on Coronavirus regulations that regular international passenger flights to and from Colombia will be banned through August 31. The surprising announcement came just one day after

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Colombia Switches from General Quarantine to ‘Health Emergency’ June 1; Ban Continues on All Domestic, International Flights & Inter-City Travel Through June 30

Medellin Herald May 19, 2020

Colombia President Ivan Duque announced May 19 in a nationwide address that Colombia will transition from Covid-19 “general quarantine” to potentially less-severe, city-specific “health emergency” regulations starting June 1 through August 31. Differences between “quarantine” and “health emergency” regulatory limits could prove to be relatively great in areas

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Quarantine to Extend to May 25, but One-Third of Colombians Could Escape it as More Economic Sectors, Rural Areas to Open with New Biosafety Protocols

Medellin Herald May 5, 2020

Some 15 million Colombians could be freed from Coronavirus quarantine this month as a result of new flexibility measures for certain economic sectors as well as for some 800 municipalities that (to date) haven’t had a single case of Covid-19. This “Covid-free-area” exemption potentially would include large areas of rural Antioquia — but not in […]

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Medellin Adopts Employer-Employee Controls for Partial Reopening of Economy During Coronavirus Crisis

Medellin Herald April 24, 2020

Medellin Mayor Daniel Quintero announced April 24 a novel computerized registration scheme – unique in all Colombia — for all employers and employees in the construction and manufacturing sectors that are reopening for business on April 27 in the Valle de Aburra metro area. Employers are now registering their businesses (and their employees) at

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Medellin Metro Areas Unify ‘Pico y Cedula’ April 27 To May 11 with New Rotations

Medellin Herald April 23, 2020

The Area Metropolitana de Valle de Aburra (AMVA) announced April 23 that Medellin and all its neighbors in Valle de Aburra will switch to a unified “pico y cedula” system restricting grocery, medicine and banking trips to certain days of the week during the Coronavirus quarantine. The new order covers Medellin, Barbosa, Itagüí, Caldas, Sabaneta, […]

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Colombia Quarantine Extended to May 11; Manufacturing, Construction OK; No Passenger Flights Through May 30

Medellin Herald April 21, 2020

Colombia President Ivan Duque announced last night (April 20) in a nationwide televised address that the current Coronavirus quarantine that had been set to expire April 27 instead will be extended another two weeks—to May 11. Broader quarantines on vulnerable populations including school-age students and those over 70 will continue through May 30. Aside from […]

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Antioquia’s Central Wholesale Produce Market Here Wins Coronavirus-Controls ‘OK’

Medellin Herald April 20, 2020

The “Central Mayorista” wholesale produce market in the Medellin suburb of Itagüí just got a crucial “OK” grade from Antioquia’s Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development Rodolfo Correa Vargas during an April 18 personal inspection to check for Coronavirus prevention. Correa visited the giant Central Produce Market – by far the largest in metro Medellin, […]

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Antioquia’s Coffee Growers Win Health Ministry Approval to Resume Harvest

Medellin Herald April 15, 2020

The “Comite de Cafeteros de Antioquia” (CCA, the Antioquia coffee-growers association) announced April 14 that Colombia’s Health Ministry has approved a new biosafety protocol that will enable resumption of coffee harvesting — a crucial export commodity both for Antioquia and Colombia. “Between March and June, it is expected that the first-semester [first half of

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Colombia’s Ban on International Flights to Continue Beyond April 27 Quarantine Deadline

Medellin Herald April 15, 2020

Colombia President Ivan Duque announced April 15 that while the current national Coronavirus quarantine is presumptively set to expire April 27, regular international passenger flights to and from Colombia nevertheless will continue to be banned. Even after April 27 when the current national quarantine ends, “international flights will remain closed for a longer period of

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Colombia Preparing Coronavirus ‘Protocols’ to Enable Return to Work, Production: President

Medellin Herald April 13, 2020

Colombia President Ivan Duque revealed April 13 that his government is now preparing certain regulatory “protocols” that will allow many people currently in Coronavirus quarantine to return to work, many businesses to reopen and the national economy to restart. “We are preparing to beat the Coronavirus, rather than letting the Coronavirus beat us and destroy […]