UNHCR Colombia Response Update #17, 16-30 November 2020
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The Colombian Ministry of Health confirmed 1.544.826 cases of COVID-19 as of 23 December, with Bogotá recording the highest number (438.854 confirmed cases). A total of 41.174 individuals have died from COVID-19 and 1.404.168 cases have recovered.
According to Migración Colombia, 122,397 Venezuelans returned to Venezuela from or through Colombia since the 14 March border closure (as of 3 December). During the reporting period, 1,531 Venezuelans returning to Venezuela were registered at the Transitory Health Attention Centre (CAST in Spanish) near the Colombia-Venezuela border. At the same time, several hundreds of Venezuelans continued to enter Colombia each day at the end of November, primarily via irregular border points (trochas in Spanish), despite the heavy rains that devastated the Caribbean coast. There was also an increase in Venezuelans travelling on foot to the southern border town of Puert