reportedly stricter than the measures issued by the colombian government, using or threatening to use violence to enforce their rules, and even punishing with death to those who failed to comply with them. in april 2020, amnesty international warned about the situation of indigenous communities: "indigenous peoples in colombia are on high alert. the government is implementing preventive measures for covid-19 in the country without adequately guaranteeing their fundamental rights. historically they have not had access to health, water or food and in the context of this pandemic this situation is much more serious because they do not have the sanitary and social conditions to deal adequately with covid-19". government responses on 24 march 2020, president iván duque announced the introduction of a program named ingreso solidario intended to distribute government assistance during the health emergency to 3 million families that were either working informally or not covered by other social welfare programs, for which people could apply online. three payouts of approximately cop 160,000 (us$38.4) each were planned. by the time the second payout was announced, 500,000 families had been accepted into the program. on 24 june 2020, duque announced the extension of the ingreso solidario program until december 2020, and on 20 july 2020, at which point the program was serving 3 million families, he announced its further extension until june 2021. another program named colombia está contigo and intended to deliver humanitarian assistance packages to recipients, specifically including transgender people, was created by the national department for disaster risk management (departamento nacional de gestión del riesgo de desastres). starting from 24 march 2020, the television show prevención y acción (prevention and action) was broadcast daily from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. with president duque explaining to citizens the most recent updates on the pandemic in the country and the decisions made by the government to contain it. while the show recorded relatively high rating numbers during its first two months and has been considered by figures such as pan american health organization assistant director jarbas barbosa as an example on how to inform and communicate updates on the situation to citizens, opposition politicians have considered it to be "an abusive use of the media by the president to make irrelevant announcements and permanent advertisement" and have requested for it to be shut down. as of 7 july 2020, the show had completed 100 broadcasts. the daily presidential broadcast was suspended indefinitely starting from 4 may 2021, amid the 2021 colombian protests. on 20 april 2020, the colombian congress began holding virtual sessions. existing congressional rules neither explicitly allowed nor forbade virtual sessions. it was the first time in colombia's history that congress had convened online. the inauguration of the congress's second ordinary session of the year, scheduled to be held on 20 july 2020, was confirmed to be virtual, accompanied by the office of the inspector general to ensure transparency in the election process of the new directives of the senate. in late june 2020, the city of bogotá announced the initiative #donatónporlosniños to distribute donated computers to children in public schools to enable them to attend school online. by the end of june 2020, nearly 500 computers and more than cop 76 million (approximately us$20,000) had been collected. the department of social prosperity (departamento de la prosperidad social) expected to have distributed cop 12.2 trillion (approximately us$3.2 billion) to millions of people through various social programs by the end of 2020. vaccination main article: covid-19 vaccination in colombia covid-19 vaccination in colombia began on 17 february 2021. the colombian government confirmed that it had ordered enough doses, through covax and direct from manufacturers, to vaccinate 34 million people (70% of the country's population) with the hope of reaching herd immunity. over 70 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. as of 16 august 2022, 36,027,994 people have received their first dose of a two-dose vaccine and 29,883,374 of them also received the second dose, while 6,624,372 people have been vaccinated with single-dose vaccines, for a total of 36,507,746 fully vaccinated people. in addition to this, 13,731,703 people have received first booster doses and 1,470,593 people received a second booster dose for a total of 87,738,036 vaccine doses administered across the country. charitable funds colombia cuida a colombia, which featured an online music festival on 1 may 2020, raised cop 1.9 billion (roughly half a million u.s. dollars) from 42,000 donors. in may 2020, netflix donated us$500,000 (cop 1.994 billion) to assist over 1,500 technicians in the film industry who had lost their jobs. the fund was administrated by the colombian academy of film arts and sciences (academia colombiana de artes y ciencias cinematográficas - acacc). from 6 to 9 may 2020, the federación de loterías de colombia (fedelco) raised funds for 10,000 lottery ticket vendors (loteros) who were unable to work during the national lockdown and the subsequent suspension of lotteries and gambling. in august 2020, businessman luis carlos sarmiento donated 97 ventilators to the health ministry. prisons outbreaks by the end of april 2020, following increased testing efforts at the prison in villavicencio, over 15% of prisoners there were diagnosed positive. on 29 april, the number of positive cases at villavicencio prison reached 314. in early may, 7 percent of all confirmed cases in colombia were in the central prison of villavicencio. by 3 june 89% of all cases in meta (878 of 983) were at this prison. by 15 may 2020, the outbreak at la picota prison in bogotá had ended as inpec confirmed that the five inmates there who had been diagnosed with the illness had all recovered, but there were still active outbreaks at six of the country's 132 prisons. positive cases had been confirmed at prisons in florencia, ibagué, and guaduas. in the prison in leticia, in the amazonas department, there were 90 cases in two weeks. ternera prison in cartagena reported its first case on 14 may. an outbreak at villahermosa prison in cali was confirmed to have emerged in early june 2020, with 18 people including prisoners, inpec guards and police members confirmed as positive covid-19 cases on 6 june. this prompted cali's health secretary to carry on mass screening and tests within the prison, which houses 5,643 prisoners and has an overcrowding of nearly 300%. by 8 june, the number of infected people reached 119, while by 12 june 312 people at the prison were infected: 271 inmates and 41 officials, and one person died from the disease. riots on the evening of 21 march 2020, about 23 prisoners were killed and 83 injured during a riot at la modelo prison in bogotá which erupted amid fears over spreading of the coronavirus through prison walls. prisoners across the country were protesting against overcrowding in prisons as well as poor health services ever since the outbreak of covid-19. on 4 may 2020, a brawl broke out at the municipal prison in san josé del guaviare, where it was discovered that inmates had used alcohol-based sanitizer to get drunk. the sanitizer had been donated to help prisoners keep their living spaces clean during the outbreak. prisoner release on 15 april 2020, the government issued a decree (which it had announced three weeks earlier) to allow 5,000 prisoners to return to their homes. the focus was on prisoners who were disabled, ill, over 60 years old, or new mothers (pregnant, nursing, or with children under age 3), and who had already served about half of their original brief sentence. by 4 may 268 prisoners had been released under the terms of this decree. moreover, thousands of other prisoners were released by ordinary mechanisms such as expiration of their sentences. by mid-may, requests for release from over five hundred prisoners had been approved, while a thousand requests had been denied. statistics recorded cases by department as of 30 april 2022 departmentconfirmed casesconfirmed deathsrecoveredactive cases bogotá, d.c.1,769,21629,4811,734,106594 antioquia918,70218,292897,603251 valle del cauca540,91915,070522,723206 atlántico402,43410,140390,45534 cundinamarca318,3547,297309,353234 santander283,6868,187274,312254 bolívar197,3653,244193,4047 boyacá125,2502,785121,73963 tolima124,5054,009119,692160 norte de santander119,8105,109114,00748 córdoba119,0733,960114,34420 caldas116,9452,527113,70236 magdalena114,9653,638110,85724 cesar106,5322,675103,29629 risaralda106,4102,476103,25346 meta105,0332,543101,96279 nariño104,4153,323100,55514 huila100,3533,51496,3505 cauca72,3001,79669,95849 quindío70,8262,05668,37715 sucre65,7011,72063,66018 la guajira56,3471,53254,61620 casanare41,7111,00240,46451 caquetá24,9871,03423,73110 putumayo20,50877619,6189 chocó18,58643018,0221 arauca16,32253515,67136 san andrés10,19815510,0110 amazonas7,5712657,2705 guaviare5,5891055,4561 vichada3,400623,3330 guainía2,765372,7152 vaupés1,889221,8611 colombia6,092,667139,7975,926,4762,322 including barranquilla. including cartagena. including santa marta. charts source: official daily statistics published by the national health institute (ins) of colombia. total confirmed cases confirmed new cases per day confirmed deaths per day confirmed recoveries per day