Tag: COVID-19
Costa Rica Renews Plan for the Entry of Nicaraguan Agricultural Workers
Authorities from Costa Rica and Nicaragua renewed this past week an agreement that will allow the temporary entry of Nicaraguan agricultural workers to harvest...
Foreigners in Irregular immigration Status Living in Costa Rica Who Demonstrate Roots May be...
Foreigners who are in the country, in irregular immigration status, may receive vaccines against Covid-19, but they must demonstrate that they have roots here....
Exchange Students Return to the Campus of ULACIT
A group of ten young Germans are the first foreign students to return to the ULACIT (Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología) campus after...
The Jobs That Are Growing The Most In 2021
2021 has been, without any doubt, one of the strangest years of all time. The acceleration of Covid-19 in our lives has caused a...
Costa Rican Banks Extend Assistance Programs for Clients With Payment Problems Due to COVID-19
If your company or your personal finances have not been able to recover from the Covid-19 situation and you still have debts with a...
Sanitary Vehicle Circulation Restriction is Extended During all August 2021
The sanitary vehicle circulation restriction in Costa Rica remains in force throughout this month of August, as established by the Government through a decree...
The Netherlands Eliminates Mandatory Quarantine For Costa Rican Travelers And Classifies The Country As...
Starting this Friday, all Costa Rican travelers flying to the Netherlands (Holland) will be exempt from mandatory quarantine. This, after the European country lowered...
Caribbean Countries Began To See Progressive Increase in Tourism
The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) said today that the countries of the region began to reverse the decline in the sector that began at...
Using A Mask Even During Intense Exercise Is Safe And Recommended
Nicolás Zúñiga, Costa Rican personal trainer, explains that it is normal to feel some discomfort with face masks and that it is only a...
Costa Rica Receives US$ 300 Million from World Bank to Support Post Pandemic Recovery
The Executive Board of the World Bank (WB) approved this past week a loan of US $ 300 million to support the efforts of...
As Of This Monday, June 28th, the Vehicle Circulation Restriction Will Change Again in...
As of this Monday, June 28th and until Sunday, July 11th, the vehicle circulation restriction for even and odd plates will apply again, from 5 a.m. at 9 p.m. and throughout the national territory.
Costa Rican Social Security Will Apply 1.5 Million Doses of Influenza Vaccine
The vaccination against influenza will be developed in parallel with the immunization campaign against COVID-19
Covid-19 Cases Continue to Decline in Costa Rica
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 decreased by 9 percent in the last week in Costa Rica, thus maintaining the downward trend during June, while vaccination...
Experts Recommend Physical Activity to Those Who Have the Sequelae of COVID-19
Tiredness, muscle weakness, dyspnea, shortness of breath and cough are the most frequent sequelae that people who were diagnosed with COVID-19 have. This was...
Costa Rica Leads the Fight against Desertification In Central America
Costa Rica is the host country for Desertification and Drought Day. This year's motto is “Restoration. Land.Recovery. Healthy lands for a better reconstruction”. Our...
Vaccinated Against COVID-19 in Costa Rica Will Be Able to Request a Digital Certificate
People who have received the COVID-19 vaccine in Costa Rica may request a vaccination certificate from the Ministry of Health, either to leave the...
Viruses, Vaccines, Science, and the “Progress Trap”
The progress narrative becomes murkier, and establishment science becomes something we must start to interrogate.
“Jaco Impact”, the Force of Learning by Doing
“Jaco Impact” is Yorgina Ureña's own project. Which is widely known within her community as the motivating force behind this great initiative.
World Health Organization Assures that Vaccines Work Against All Covid-19 Variants
. The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that vaccines against COVID-19 that have been approved, and that are in use in vaccination campaigns, also...
Peak of COVID-19 Infections in Costa Rica Came a Month Early and Could Now...
Costa Rica reached the maximum peak of infections this week, a month before the worst projected scenario, according to the demographer of the Central...
Digitization Today, in Pandemic
The Pandemic derived from COVID-19 has brought with it many unfavorable consequences.But through it humanity has experienced an even more advanced digitization.
Juan Santamaría Airport Will Have A Laboratory For Covid-19 Rapid Tests
Starting this Friday, May 14th, the Juan Santamaría International Airport will have a rapid test laboratory to detect the SARV-COV2 virus that causes COVID-19....
World Health Organization Director Asks Not To Vaccinate Children against COVID and Deliver the...
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) this past week asked countries not to vaccinate children and adolescents against COVID and rather...
Social Distancing in 2020 Gave Impetus to the Incipient Electronic Commerce in Costa Rica
Confinement and social distancing, as well as restrictions on mobility during 2020, led the Costa Rican population to resort to greater use of electronic...
Costa Rica Exceeds One million Doses of the COVID Vaccine Administered
The Costa Rican authorities reported this past Tuesday that they have put more than a million doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 into Costa...
Costa Rica Begins a Week of Closure for Non-essential Activities
As a measure to slow down the third wave of COVID-19 infections that has saturated hospitals.
Businesses in Costa Rica Must Close at 9 p.m. for 20 days After Change...
Shops in Costa Rica must close access to the public at 9 p.m. for 20 days. This is the measure taken by the Government...
The Truth About Application of COVID-19 Vaccines will be Known in Pérez Zeledon
Members of the Costa Rica Libertad y Vida Citizen Movement, reported that during this weekend, they will go to the streets of Pérez Zeledón,...
Costa Rica, Paraguay and Ecuador Launch a Project to Reactivate Post Covid-19 Sustainable Tourism
A project to reactivate sustainable tourism in the region in the framework of the Post-Pandemic era is what the governments of Costa Rica, Paraguay,...
Costa Rica Calls for Democratizing the Distribution of Vaccines Against COVID-19
Costa Rica called this past Saturday to intensify the production of vaccines against COVID-19 and to democratize their distribution for meeting the needs of...
Due to the Increase in COVID-19 Cases in Costa Rica, Vehicle Circulation Restriction Returns...
The Government of Costa Rica announced the reinstatement of the vehicle license plate circulation restriction on weekends, starting this April 17th. Thus, the plates...
Costa Rica Requests to the International Community Distribution of Global Resources According to Each...
The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, today requested a distribution of liquidity from abundant sources to people with deficiencies, taking into account the...
Costa Rica Approves Use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine
The National Vaccination and Epidemiology Commission (CNVE) approved the use of the COVID-19 vaccine from the company AstraZeneca. The vaccine will be applied to...
COVID-19 Test Changes the Way You Travel
While COVID-19 has spread at great speed, it has taken the whole world time to adapt to the situation to which this virus is...
Costa Rica Registers a 113-year-old Patient Recovered From COVID-19
Costa Rica registers a 113-year-old patient recovered from COVID-19, he is the oldest person who has overcome SARS-CoV-2 in our country. The record was...
New York State Legalizes the Recreational Use of Marijuana
The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, signed this past Wednesday the law that legalizes the recreational use of marijuana, approved the day before...
COVID-19 and Soccer Trials Stand Out as the Main News this Past Week in...
Strong criticism of the slow process of vaccination against COVID-19 that forced the Government to speed up immunization and the demand trial of three...
Guanacaste Airport Opens New Laboratory Service for COVID-19 Tests
Guanacaste Airport - a member of the VINCI Airports network - launched the antigenic testing service for the detection of COVID-19, thanks to an...
Costa Rican Authorities Make a Call Not to Relax Sanitary Protocols Due to the...
The authorities of the Costa Rican National Commission for Risk Prevention and Emergency Attention (CNE) and the Ministry of Tourism reiterated the call for...
Costa Rica and the UN Addressed COVID-19 and the Environment
Environmental issues, the COVID-19 Pandemic and economic recovery dominated this week the virtual meeting between the President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, and the...
