Colombia’s Bogota To Enter Lockdown Amid New Strain Concerns

A woman wearing a face mask drives a motorcycle in one of the neighbourhoods where the mayor's office decreed strict quarantine, amidst an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Bogota, Colombia on Jan. 5, 2021. Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters File Photo

BOGOTA—Colombia’s capital will enter a strict quarantine until Tuesday due to rising coronavirus infection numbers and suspicions a new variant of the virus is circulating, Mayor of Bogota Claudia Lopez said on Thursday.

Strict quarantines were imposed on three Bogota neighborhoods this week to control rising infections, which Lopez said could be caused by a new variant of the virus first identified in the United Kingdom.