"In accordance with the provisions of Decree 039 of January 14, 2021, all land and river border crossing points of the country will remain closed until March 1," RIA Novosti reports a message from the Colombian migration service.

The decree extends to the borders with Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Venezuela.

The ban does not apply to unforeseen and force majeure events, the carriage of goods and goods.

Earlier it was reported that in Colombia over the past day, the number of detected cases of coronavirus infection COVID-19 increased by 17,121, reaching 1,849,101.