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Sun, 18 Jul 2021 06:09:34 +0000
Today’s Vehicle Restriction July 18: ODD ending plates CANNOT circulate
Today, Sunday, July 18, ODD ending plates 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. The following is the official program on the restriction...

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:59:57 +0000
Covid-19 contagion rate in Costa Rica remains low at 0.95
QCOSTARICA – The contagion rate of covid-19 in Costa Rica maintains a slight downward trend, according to the weekly analysis carried out by the Universidad Hispanoamericana (UH). The indicator, also called the “R rate”, which indic...

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:48:41 +0000
Iberojet opens operations in the country with a Madrid-San José flight
QCOSTARICA – For the first time, Iberojet landed in Costa Rica Friday afternoon, opening its Madrid (MAD) – San Jose (SJO) service. The Friday flight, on an Airbus A350, considered the most eco-efficient of the class, had 290 passengers a...

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:39:10 +0000
Crashing a vehicle into a house also qualifies as a traffic accident, authorities clarify
QCOSTARICA – When a vehicle crashes into a fixed object, such as houses, power lines, or other real property, it also qualifies as a traffic accident. As it is a road accident, the Traffic Police (Policia de Transito) must be called, but the re...

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 11:44:00 +0000
Desperate for vaccines in Costa Rica!
QCOSTARICA – In Costa Rica, the urgency of getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is growing by the day. The continued large number of new cases daily and the looming arrival of the delta variant is threatening once again to overwhelm Costa Rica&#...

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 06:07:07 +0000
Today’s Vehicle Restriction July 17: EVEN ending plates CANNOT circulate
Today, Saturday, July 17, EVEN ending plates 0, 2, 4, 6, & 8 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. The following is the official program on the restric...

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:36:35 +0000
New motorcycle plates are a timid effort to fight crime
QCOSTARICA – Starting in August, motorcycles will get new license plates, larger and with bigger numbers to better be identified by police. According to the National Registry, this change arose because many license plates already have six digit...

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:13:38 +0000
Cuban government blames Twitter for historic protests
Q24N – A campaign orchestrated on Twitter from the United States to destabilize the regime is the argument of the Cuban government to explain the historic demonstrations of July 11. But experts consulted by the AFP are not totally convinced. &#...

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:01:26 +0000
Fiscalia charges Juan Carlos Bolaños, ex-deputy and ex-Treasury chief, for the case of Cemento Chino
QCOSTARICA – While headlines in the past few weeks have been focused on the “Caso Cochinilla”, the corruption scandal inside the Conavi and some of Costa Rica’s largest road works construction companies, the Fiscalia has conti...

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 12:44:19 +0000
WHO warns of new “more dangerous” covid-19 variants
(AFP) The Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned this Thursday of the “strong probability” that new variants of the coronavirus will emerge, which would be “more dangerous”, largely driven by the vir...



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