On 11 March of 2020 the local Government issued the Decree 081 of 2020 which establishes several sanitary measures to control the effects of COVID-19, and prevent its spread amongst the population.
This decision is aligned with the measures
adopted by the National Government and the World Health Organization (WHO) to
control the effects of the virus. The following are some measured decreed:
Personal Self-care measures:
Collective self-care measures:
This measures can be adopted by the companies through an internal policy.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Health and the Colombian Government decreed preventive isolation measures for people from China, Spain, France and Italy, with the aim of avoiding the spread of this virus.
For this reason, as of 10 March 2020, people
who arrive in Colombia from one of those
countries must comply with the following measures:
These measures do not apply to aircrew.
People that arrived from these four countries within the 14 days prior to 10 March, will be monitored by the national authorities and must carry out preventive self-isolation.
The authorities could impose fines and sanctions to those who do not comply with the measures mentioned above, and could order the deportation if the offender is a foreigner.
These measures will be enforceable until 30
May, 2020, however they can be released earlier if the causes that originated
them disappear, or extended, if they persist.