QCOSTARICA – Spain had excluded Costa Rica from the list of risk countries to enter by air for presenting a negative covid-19 test (RT-PCR, RT-LAMP, or TMA) before arrival. As of February 22, Costa Rica remained off the list that includes count...

Japan is beefing up measures against loneliness, taking a first major step toward comprehensively tackling a pervasive problem in the nation that has again been thrust into the spotlight due to the pandemic. Such is the urgency of the issue that the ...

QCOSTARICA – Borrowing its way out of the current financial crisis seems to be objective for the Carlos Alvarado government. Obtaining about US$2.5 billion this year through loans from international organizations is part of the external financi...

QCOSTARICA – The Ministry of Health authorized the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, based on the conditional marketing authorization of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). This authorization is given after the evaluation ...

QCOSTARICA – Need to leave the country and require a test to detect SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes covid-19? The Cámara Costarricense de la Salud CCS – PROMED (Costa Rican Chamber of Health) confirmed that 97 private laboratorie...

TODAY COSTA RICA – Before the Office of the Comptroller General (CGR), the rate agreed by the Municipality of the canton of San Carlos was raised, to charge for the “ferry-boat” service on the San Carlos River. La Nación on February 26, 19...

Costa Rica is one of the world’s most desirable ex-pat locations and a retirement haven in Central America. The country is blessed with an exotic landscape and a rugged and rainforested terrain, with beautiful coastlines and a volcano. This scenery...

QCOSTARICA – Despite losing their home entirely in December, a Heredia received electricity bills from the Heredia Public Service Company (ESPH) for January and February. In other words, the entity wanted them to pay for energy that they did no...

QCOSTARICA – Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), a division of the Amazon company, announced the opening of its first Central American office in Costa Rica to provide cloud computing services. The company, in a statement Thursday, said it will hir...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica President Carlos Alvarado assured that the State lacks the money to start the Costa Rican Space Agency (Agencia Espacial Costarricense (AEC) – AEC) that the legislators approved last week. The bill, following the l...