QCOSTARICA – The President of the Comision Nacional de Emergencias (CNE), Alexander Solis, announced this Monday afternoon that Costa Rica is purchasing an additional two million additional doses of vaccine, bringing the total to 9 million for ...

QCOSTARICA – At the press conference from Casa Presidencial that started more than 15 minutes this afternoon, the government announced new sanitary measures that will be applied for the rest of this month of May, aimed at curbing the exponentia...

QCOSTARICA – In contrast to the belief that only the old get deadly sick after being infected with covid-19, a 27-year-old old and a healthy man before SARS-CoV-2 has accumulated so far 111 days connected to a device popularly known as an ̶...

For most people, getting to the stars is nothing more than a dream. But on May 5, 2021, the 60th anniversary of the first suborbital flight, that dream became a little bit more achievable. The space company Blue Origin announced that it would start s...

Late last year, three distinct and fast-spreading coronavirus variants were observed in the UK, South Africa and Brazil. More recently, variants in India, the US and elsewhere are causing alarm. Does the emergence of these variants portend a protract...

QCOSTARICA – Sunday night, 432 of the 1,188 covid patients in hospital are in Intensive Care Units (ICU), after suffering complications from covid-19. In the latest occupancy report from the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), it was ev...

QCOSTARICA – Frequently the 911 emergency services receive calls reporting street brawls, “pleitos” in Spanish, and most are made from San José. And many involve two women. Also, the number of people who record these “los ple...

NOTE: Monday afternoon the government announced changes in the vehicle restrictions that take effect Tuesday, May 11 and capacities (aforos) starting May 13 and continue to the end of the month. Click here for our report on these changes. QCOSTARICA ...

QCOSTARICA – The Cruz Roja (Red Cross), on Saturday,  suspended the extraction of the body of nutritionist Marialis Blanco Vega, who was found dead early in the morning in Ventisqueros canyon, in Chirripó National Park. According to informati...

QCOSTARICA – The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) says that its hospitalization figures for serious covid-19 patients are in the red. In a statement  Saturday night, the institution asserted that its resources are insufficient to att...