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Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:24:25 +0000
Cause and Effect: Semana Santa and reduced restrictions taking its toll
QCOSTARICA – The relaxed restrictions of the month and in combination with Semana Santa has resulted in an increase in cases, almost double that of last month, increased hospitalizations and more people actively carrying the virus. The good new...

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 18:03:00 +0000
Avianca to fly direct San José and Miami starting July 1
QCOSTARICA – Avianca airlines announced that starting next July 1, 2021, it will fly daily non-stop between San José (SJO) and Miami (MIA). The Colombia flag airline reported, in a press release, that the route will be covered by an Airbus A32...

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:33:54 +0000
Couple used fast food delivery services to hide sales of marijuana pastries
HQ – A couple was arrested on suspicion of using fast food delivery services to deliver marijuana pastries sold in the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM). The detention on Wednesday, but made public this Friday, by the Ministry of Public Security ...

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 16:24:13 +0000
Work on the Circulavacion Norte Resumes
QCOSTARICA – The Minister of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT), Rodolfo Méndez Mata, signed Friday afternoon the extension of the addendum with United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for the supervision services of the works i...

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:28:38 +0000
RECOPE asks for another hike in fuel prices
QCOSTARICA – If you haven’t gotten over the whopping increase in fuel prices that went into effect this Wednesday, ready for another, the fifth consecutive this year, as the do nothing Costa Rican refinery made its latest request on Frida...

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:50:48 +0000
Immigration alerts about possible delay in airport procedures this Saturday
QCOSTARICA – The Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería (DGME) – Costa Rica’s immigration service – is alerting people arriving and leaving the country this Saturday, April 10, 2021, to possible delays in its procedur...

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:23:00 +0000
Order and tranquility, this is how voluntary vaccination against Covid-19 is developed in Nicaragua
TODAY NICARAGUA – From the early hours of this Friday, seniors with chronic conditions came out voluntarily for the Covishield vaccine against Covid-19. At the Bertha Calderón hospital in Managua, those over 60 years of age arrive to be vaccinated...

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 12:58:29 +0000
China is donating 150,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to El Salvador
Q24N – “I received a letter from [Chinese] President Xi Jinping, where he tells me that he will donate 150,000 vaccines against covid-19 to our country. These are in addition to the 2 million acquired from SINOVAC by our government,”...

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 12:52:51 +0000
Brazilian Prostitutes ‘Priority Group’ COVID Vaccination
Q24N – Prostitutes in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte have gone on a week-long strike, urging the government to give them prioritized COVID shots alongside other “front line” workers, the AFP reports. On Monday, a group of sex workers ...

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 12:44:38 +0000
Bolsonaro’s ‘genocidal’ Covid response has led to Brazilian catastrophe, Dilma Rousseff says
Q REPORTS (TheGuardian) Jair Bolsonaro’s perverse and “genocidal” response to one of the world’s deadliest Covid outbreaks has left Brazil “adrift on an ocean of hunger and disease”, the country’s former president Dilma Rousseff has cla...



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