Tag: COVID-19
Costa Rica advances smoothly in vaccination against COVID-19
The Costa Rican authorities reported this week that the vaccination process against COVID-19 in the first priority population group is progressing smoothly according to...
Costa Rica registers 136,083 people recovered from COVID-19
On Wednesday, January 6th the country reached a total of 177,614 confirmed cases of COVID-19. In total we have 87,191 women and 90,423 men,...
Innovation for 2021: International Photography Workshops
In past articles, we have highlighted that technology is a science applied to problem-solving. It provides the human being with tools. These allow them...
World Exposure of Costa Rica as a destination to visit in 2021 generates optimism...
The vaccine against COVID-19 gives hope for economic recovery, especially in the hotel business, one of the hardest hit in 2020 by the absence...
COVID-19 Reproduction Rate Continues to Decline in Costa Rica
The latest report on COVID-19 prepared by the Research Unit of the School of Medicine of the Universidad Hispanoamericana, indicates that the Basic Reproduction...
Pandemic effects on Tico sports could still be felt in 2021
Undoubtedly, 2020 was marked as atypical for sports in Costa Rica and the world after March 6th, when COVID-19, a disease derived from the...
The COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 has Caused Disruptions of Basic Civil Freedoms say Human...
The global fight against the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020 has restricted basic civil freedoms, weakening some human rights and, furthermore, it facilitates a possible...
Tico Health Authorities Reduce Confinement for Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients from 14 to 10 Days
Version # 17 of the COVID-19 Surveillance Guideline, published today by the Costa Rican Ministry of Health, establishes that close contacts of a confirmed...
Fresh Air: the Secret Weapon against COVID-19
For one doctor, the very idea of people keeping their windows closed "makes his head explode with anger." For his part, a prominent engineer...
Coronavirus Pandemic Reaches Antarctica
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The Challenge of Tico Companies for a Healthy Return to the Offices: Guide to...
Although the outlook is uncertain in many business sectors due to the Pandemic, senior managers are analyzing the option for their employees to adapt...
Christmas Spending in 2020 for Latin America, Festive but Austere
Talking about consumer behavior during Christmas 2020, it must be analyzed the impact that the Pandemic had on people at work, economic, social and...
Costa Rica Rules Out Closing All for Facing the Critical Situation Due to COVID-19
The Minister of Health of Costa Rica, Daniel Salas, ruled out applying extreme measures to avoid the spread of COVID-19, despite the complex situation...
Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Costa Rica will be Done Throughout All 2021
With the authorization of the first vaccine against COVID-19 in Costa Rica and the preparations for its application, a glimmer of hope looms in...
UN declares 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables
In the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic, experts have emphasized that fruits and vegetables play a very relevant role since they improve nutritional and...
New Tourism Cluster in the Central Pacific Will Improve Competitiveness in Costa Rica’s Post-Covid...
The start of the new Tourism Cluster for the Central Pacific Region this past week at the facilities of the Tourism Promotion Board in...
The BPM Festival 2021 in Costa Rica Opens its Reservations
The BPM Festival is back!, as they've just announced the Phase 1 Lineup for their sophomore edition: Tamarindo, Costa Rica in 2021! Slated for...
COVID-19 Reproduction Rate Drops in Costa Rica
A new report on COVID-19 in Costa Rica prepared by the Research Unit of the School of Medicine at the Universidad Hispanoamericana
New Campaign Invites Tourists from the US and Canada to: “Discover in Costa Rica...
Spreading the message of “Pura Vida” and inspiring tourists to travel to Costa Rica with their loved ones, is the objective of the “Who...
COVID-19 Protocol for Christmas in Costa Rica is being Carefully Prepared
Authorities and specialized personnel of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) will detail today the COVID-19 preparations of the emergency services for the...
Costa Rica’s President Tests Negative for Coronavirus
The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, and the first lady, Claudia Dobles, tested negative for COVID-19 to which they were subjected after having...
A study in Costa Rica reveals that Reducing Vehicular Circulation helps prevent COVID-19
A study developed by the government of Costa Rica has revealed that the restriction of vehicle circulation has contributed to reducing the number of...
Costa Rica is the Country Preferred by Americans to Study outside their own Country
Costa Rica is the country preferred by Americans to study outside their country, according to the report known as Open Doors. And in the...
Guaranteed enough Doses to Immunize 1.5 million People in Costa Rica with COVID-19 Vaccine
Costa Rica purchased three million units of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, which now shows encouraging progress in its preliminary results. In...
Enough Doses are Guaranteed to Immunize 1.5 million Costa Ricans with the COVID-19 Vaccine
Costa Rica purchased three million units of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, which now shows encouraging progress in its preliminary results. In...
Latest Measurements for COVID-19 in Costa Rica Confirm Downward Trend in Contagion
The latest academic measurements for COVID-19 confirm the trend in reductions of the reproduction rate, known as R0. According to the Central American Population...
The WHO Warned of the Serious Long-term Side Effects of COVID-19
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that many patients with COVID-19, whether or not they have been hospitalized,...
COVID-19 Could Accelerate Mental Decline by up to 10 Years
Having COVID-19 could accelerate mental decline by up to 10 years. This is reflected in a new study published by Imperial College London and...
How the Worker´s Health and Disability Orders Due to COVID-19 Apply in Costa Rica
On the subject of isolation and disability orders, doubts arise when the worker is diagnosed with Covid-19 and his condition allows him to continue working
The COVID-19 Vaccine will not be Applied to Young People until 2022, says WHO
The chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO), Soumya Swaminathan, said today that a 'young and healthy person' will have to wait until...
Five Valuable Lessons from the Pandemic on Savings and Investment
Despite the crisis the country is experiencing, which was aggravated by the pandemic, experts agree that maintaining the habit of saving is essential to...
At What Point Does A Person With COVID-19 Begin To Infect Another?
The main causes for which new infections of SARS-CoV-2 or Covid-19 are because the health security recommendations are not put into practice and on...
US Lowers Level of Travel Alert for its Citizens to Costa Rica
The State Department lowered the travel alert advisory level for Costa Rica from a level 4 —which means “do not visit” - to a...
The WHO Confirms the Origin of COVID-19
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has put an end to doubts about the origin of the novel Coronavirus
People with Neanderthal DNA can suffer a more Severe form of COVID-19
Research carried out has revealed that a genetic variant of a region of chromosome 3 is associated with the most severe manifestations of the Coronavirus disease
Baby of a Young Pregnant Woman Who Died of COVID-19 Manages to Survive
Within the latest list of deaths from COVID-19, a woman with a particular profile stood out: at 18 she became the youngest victim
Vietnam Extends Number of Days Without Cases or Deaths from COVID-19
Vietnam closed today with a thousand cases of Covid-19, but that number grew at the expense of five nationals recently returned from France
COVID-19 Resurfaces in Europe, but why is Italy the Exception?
Italy, hard hit in the first wave of the Coronavirus, is today the exception in Europe (where the new outbreak of COVID-19 is almost general)
Civic Illiteracy in times of COVID-19
During these six months of Pandemic in which we have lived under constant restrictive measures by the Ministry of Health, at some point we questioned what the behavior
