Colombia will work with hard-hit Brazil to increase the military presence along their Amazonian border and share information in an effort to fight an increasing number of coronavirus cases in the area, Colombian President Ivan Duque said on Friday.
FILE PHOTO: Colombia's President Ivan Duque holds a news conference at the Tecnologico de Moneterrey in Mexico City, Mexico March 10, 2020. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been widely criticized for shrugging off the severity of the pandemic, telling Brazilians to ignore quarantine restrictions and pushing for the states to re-open their economies. Across the border, Colombia’s identically named Amazonas province - one of its most sparsely populated with just 66,000 inhabitants - has around 1,000 reported cases of coronavirus and at least 30 deaths.
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