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Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:22:24 +0000
Costa Rica rises from the ashes; World Cup no long a fantasy
QCOSTARICA – With the 1-0 win over Jamaica on Wednesday, the Costa Rica national team has the best shot at securing a berth in the World Cup 2022 to be in Qatar in November. Though the win didn’t come easy, it was the “never to disa...

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:03:39 +0000
Carlos Alvarado in preventive isolation; Claudia Dobles tested positive
QCOSTARICA – The first lady, Claudia Dobles, is in sanitary isolation after testing positive for covid-19; She has mild symptoms and is doing well, Casa Presidencial reported on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the President, Carlos Alvarado, tested negat...

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 08:55:08 +0000
1 in 6 cases of the entire pandemic in Costa Rica were reported in the last month
QCOSTARICA – The pandemic wave driven by the omicron variant is not only the one that has risen the fastest, but also the one that has accumulated the most reported cases. In the first month of 2022 alone, 122,317 covid-19 infections were regi...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:34:27 +0000
“That is grade-A, 100% bull cookies!”
RICO’s DIGEST – Last month, legislators approved and was subsequently signed by the President and published in La Gaceta, the law condoning past Marchamos. I, like many thousands more benefiting from this law, couldn’t be any happie...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:00:01 +0000
Presidential candidates got “down and dirty” in debate
QCOSTARICA – In the presidential debate organized by channel 36Tuesday night, the invited candidates, José María Villalta, José María Figueres, Lineth Saborío and Fabricio Alvarado took advantage when they were asked to point out two quali...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 10:48:45 +0000
93% of the jobs pending recovery in Latin America belong to women
Q REPORTS (EFE)  The strong economic recovery registered in 2021 in Latin America and the Caribbean was not enough to recover the 49 million jobs lost in 2020 in the region, where 4.5 million people, 93% of them women, still need to be reincorporate...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 10:39:27 +0000
Costa Rica will receive 500,000 anticovid vaccines from Moderna from Spain
QCOSTARICA  -The Government of Costa Rica announced Tuesday that in the coming weeks it will receive from Spain a donation of 500,000 vaccines against covid-19 from the Moderna pharmaceutical company. “Right now we are in the process of transport ...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 09:06:43 +0000
Problems in the BCR system generated queues at Immigration posts
QCOSTARICA – A “temporary problem” in the system of payment and verification of departure taxes at land borders generated a queue of more than 100 people at the Peñas Blancas immigration post. The problem was with the Banco de Cost...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 08:49:48 +0000
Disability due to covid: three cases in which it is not necessary to process it before the CCSS
QCOSTARICA – Those who have had contact with a person with confirmed cases of covid-19, but do not present symptoms and have all the vaccines, are included in one of the three groups of people who do not need to isolate or apply for disability,...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 08:29:07 +0000
Covid-19 kills 85 people in a week in Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – 85 people have died in the last seven days related to the covid-19 virus; a figure that is 73.5% higher than that of the previous week, when 49 patients died from causes related to this disease, reported the Ministry of Health. 71....



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