Costa Rica News
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:48:33 +0000Liberia airport reached tourist arrivals in June close to the pre-pandemic
QCOSTARICA – The numbers are bouncing back in terms of tourist arrivals, in particular in the North Pacific area of Guanacaste, where the Daniel Oduber International Airport (LIR), in Liberia, reported that in June of this year it reached the n...
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:31:01 +0000Number of Covid patients in ICU falls below critical threshold
QCOSTARICA – Since April 28, Costa Rica’s medical services have been stretched way beyond the limits, in particular for hospitalization in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). However, on Monday, the numbers were lower than the maximum installed ...
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:18:03 +0000With 44 votes in favor, legislators approve IMF loan
QCOSTARICA – Legislators approved in a second debate, on Monday, July 29, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan of US$1.778 billion dollars, which will be disbursed in six-semester tracts subject to compliance with an agenda to clean up pu...
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 06:01:03 +0000Today’s Vehicle Restriction July 20: plates 3 & 4 CANNOT circulate
QCOSTARICA – Today, Tuesday, July 20, the two plates not circulating. For today, license plates ending in 3 & 4 cannot circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exempt...
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 21:59:34 +0000CCSS will walk-in vaccinations for people 30 years of age and older, with or without risk factors
QCOSTARICA – Given the reduction in the influx of people aged 40 to 57, the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) authorized health centers to vaccinate against covid-19 those 30 years of age or older, with or without risk factors. The ann...
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 21:41:32 +0000Millions did not keep owners of MECO and H Solis out of jail for long
QCOSTARICA – Carlos Cerdas Araya and Mélida Solís Vargas, owners of the construction companies MECO and H Solís, had their bail annulled and imposed to four months of preventive detention after the Tribunal Penal de Hacienda (Criminal Court ...
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:27:06 +0000San José air pollution decreases in health crisis
QCOSTARICA – Among the many anguishes that the pandemic has brought, there is encouraging news. The quality of the air breathed by residents, workers and visitors to downtown San José, has improved with the obligatory measures due to the healt...
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:08:29 +0000A single dose of the vaccine is insufficient to return to normality
QCOSTARICA -Since Friday, July 16, Costa Rica has been under a massive vaccination campaign against Covid-19, when the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) embarked on an intensive mission: vaccinate hundreds of thousands of people against COVI...
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:38:49 +0000Today 50 years ago: Costa Rica began to deal with organized banditry
QCOSTARICA – Believe it not, it wasn’t until some 50 years ago that Costa Rica had a ‘banditry” problem, that doesn’t mean there was no crime in the country at the time, just it wasn’t organized. The following is f...
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:12:56 +0000Falon Vargas, the Tica who shines in Italy’s bodybuilding
Q MAGAZINE – The life of a young Costa Rican was radically changed by love. Yes, her love led her to Italy, to get married, to start a family, to be a businesswoman and, furthermore, to become the Italian Bodybuilding champion in the women̵...