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Mon, 27 Sep 2021 06:09:50 +0000
Today’s Vehicle Restriction September 27: Plates ending in “1 & 2” CANNOT circulate
QCOSTARICA – For today, Monday, September 27, vehicles with plates ending in 1 & 2 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. From 9:00 pm to 5:00 am ...

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:47:07 +0000
Government will buy one million more covid vaccines for children and third doses in 2022
QCOSTARICA – The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, announced this Saturday that the country will buy one million more covid vaccines to immunize children and apply third doses to part of the adult population in 2022. The announcement wa...

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:41:08 +0000
Don’t forget the vehicular restrictions
QCOSTARICA – If you are out and about this weekend, keep in mind the vehicular restrictions from 5:00 am to 9:00 pm. The vehicle restriction had been eliminated at the beginning of September for the weekends, but the increase in coronavirus inf...

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:34:54 +0000
UNA epidemiologist: “We are not better, we are less worse”
QCOSTARICA – The fact that the number of infections has dropped in the last two weeks does not mean that it is news to celebrate, but to cheer us up a little, but not much because, as confirmed by Dr. Juan José Romero, an epidemiologist at the...

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:07:15 +0000
Today’s Vehicle Restriction September 26: “ODD” ending plates CANNOT circulate
QCOSTARICA – For today, Sunday, September 26, vehicles with 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. From 9:00 pm to...

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 14:33:09 +0000
Canadian airlines will start flying back to Costa Rica on October 2
QCOSTARICA – Four Canadian airlines will resume their flights to and from Costa Rica, starting on October 2, after a seven-month absence following a decision by the Government of Canada to contain the covid-19 pandemic. Air Canada, Air Transat,...

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 14:04:06 +0000
8-year-old boy dies abruptly of covid-19
QCOSTARICA – An eight-year-old boy who had no risk factors died abruptly, just six hours after the minor entered a medical center, on September 20, due to covid-19. Olga Arguedas, director of the Hospital Nacional de Niños (National Children&#...

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 12:28:09 +0000
Vaccinations face unfounded fears over AstraZeneca dosages
QCOSTARICA – The goal of immunizing 500,000 people over 18 years of age with first doses for 10 days has been stumbled by the fear of some to the AstraZeneca brand product, which is the one that is applied at this time, based on unfounded fears...

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 11:58:59 +0000
There are potholes and then there are potholes!
QCOSTARICA – Imagine your vehicle being devoured by a pothole. Can’t. Neither can I. Nor did Jesús Loría, or his passengers. A sinkhole in the middle of the road knocked down a taxi driven by a man identified as Jesús Loría, in La Bav...

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 06:04:35 +0000
Today’s Vehicle Restriction September 25: “EVEN” ending plates CANNOT circulate
QCOSTARICA – For today, Saturday, September 25, vehicles with EVEN (0, 2, 4, 6, 8) ending plates CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. From 9:00 pm t...



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