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Thu, 02 Sep 2021 06:01:26 +0000
Today’s Vehicle Restriction September 2: Plates ending in “7 & 8” CANNOT circulate
QCOSTARICA – For today, Thursday, September 2, vehicles with plates ending in 7 & 8 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 10:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. This weekend will also...

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:16:04 +0000
Certificate of vaccination against covid-19 can be apostilled through Correos de Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – As of this Friday, September 3, 2021, those requiring apostille of the vaccination certificate against covid-19 from the Ministry of Health may go to any of the 110 branches of Correos de Costa Rica (post office) and process the se...

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 14:04:39 +0000
American yacht sinks after crashing in Cabo Blanco
QCOSTARICA – A 50-foot yacht crashed in the Isla Cabo Blanco in the San Miguel sector of the Nicoya Peninsula, in Pacific waters, this Tuesday morning. As a result, the rescue of the boat’s crew was required at around 5:00 am. Authorities...

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 13:47:12 +0000
UCR study foresees positive economic growth for the second quarter
QCOSTARICA –  For the second quarter of this year, the first positive growth of the Costa Rican economy is projected since the beginning of the covid-19 health crisis, at the beginning of 2020. Between April and May of this year, the gross dom...

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 13:38:38 +0000
Court acquits defendants in ‘rafting’ accident that claimed the lives of five people
QCOSTARICA – The Quepos Criminal Court acquitted an operator and two tour guides accused of the danger of shipwreck and four crimes of culpable homicide due to a rafting accident in October 2018 in Quepos, Puntarenas, which claimed the lives of...

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 13:11:07 +0000
San Juan de Dios refers emergencies to other hospitals
QCOSTARICA – The San Juan de Dios Hospital reached the maximum occupancy in the emergency service Tuesday morning, which forced patients to be referred to other hospitals, mainly the Hospitals Mexico and Calderón Guardia. The information provi...

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:56:09 +0000
Fuels are cheaper starting today, Sept 1
QCOSTARICA – September kicks off with good news, lower fuel prices. Today, Wednesday, September 1, fuels are cheaper, as the reduction approved last month took effect, following seven consecutive price hikes from the beginning of the year. In g...

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:26:54 +0000
Today’s Covid Update: new cases and deaths increased by more than 20%
QCOSTARICA – The Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday, August 21, a week-to-week increase of more than 20% of new cases and deaths of covid-19. Priscilla Herrera, Medical Manager at the Ministry of Health, explained that in epidemiological we...

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 08:55:05 +0000
Today’s Vehicle Restriction September 1: Plates ending in “5 & 6” CANNOT circulate
QCOSTARICA – For today, Wednesday, September 1, vehicles with plates ending in 5 & 6 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 10:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. This weekend will als...

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:49:12 +0000
90,000 people have disappeared amid Mexico’s drug war
Q REPORTS – Cacti, rock, mountains and gray desert sand, dotted with the remains of abandoned, gutted buildings. That’s all there is to see at the foot of the Picachos del Fraile mountain outside the northern Mexican industrial city of Mo...



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