QCOSTARICA – Deaths associated to covid-19 displaced heart attacks in 2020, as the leading cause of death in Costa Rica. According to data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC) – National Institute of Statistics and ...

QCOSTARICA – The Unión Nacional de Gobiernos Locales (UNGL) – National Union of Local Governments – reported this Thursday the municipalities that will or will not apply the “ley seca” (dry law) for Seman Santa. The mun...

QCOSTARICA – The risk rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) confirmed Wednesday, March 25, its long-term sovereign ratings in local and foreign currency of ‘B’ for Costa Rica, but made it clear that it could lower it if ...

QCOSTARICA – The Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud (Inciensa) – Costa Rican Institute for Research and Teaching in Nutrition and Health – has identified 5 more cases of covid-19 associated ...

QCOSTARICA – Let’s do some simple math. The country has received 676,455 vaccines in the first three months of the first delivery on December 23, 2020. As of Friday, March 19, the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) reports 312,000...

QCOSTARICA – A man in Costa Rica planned and ordered the murder of a Tico living in Marbella, a city in the province of Malaga, Spain. However, Spain’s National Police learned of the “hit” involving four people living in that ...

As a new spike in the number of COVID-19 cases is registered, many countries have tightened pandemic measures, and tried to invent new ways to protect people from the coronavirus… and some of them are really bizarre. Mexican researchers have cr...

Q24N – Something does not add up. At an impressive rate since the beginning of February, Chile has inoculated almost 30% of its population with one dose and 15% with both. The achievement of reaching one of the first places in the world ranking...

QCOSTARICA – Have an umbrella ready because the “aguaceros” (downpours) of the rainy season (or “green season”) are just around the corner. On Tuesday, the national weather service, the Meteorológico Nacional (IMN), announced t...

QCOSTARICA – Police detained a man, known as the “proveedor” (supplier), dedicated to providing falsified or altered Costa Rican passports, cedulas (Costa Rican id) or licenses, to foreigners. The arrested was made Tuesday morning by offici...