Colombia’s main medical organizations urged to immediately implement a temporary basic income in Bogota to prevent mass deaths as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic.
In an open letter, the 14 medical organizations urged President Ivan Duque and Mayor Claudia Lopez to implement an emergency basic income “to stop the spread of the virus and reduce the risk of mortality, as well as territorial management of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Lopez quarantined much of the impoverished south of Bogota on Monday after Duque’s attempts to reactivate the economy began threatening to collapse the capital’s healthcare system. The medical organizations sent both public […]
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