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Wed, 09 Feb 2022 08:01:10 +0000
Sala IV: “It is not unconstitutional to ask for a QR code on private sites”
QCOSTARIAC – While the government’s plan to mandate the use of the QR code to enter bars, restaurants, cinema and other businesses hinges on the resolution of the Contentious-Administrative Court, the Constitutional Court or Sala IV as it...

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 07:05:35 +0000
U.S. donates more than one million additional doses of Covid-19 vaccines
QCOSTARICA – The United States announced the donation of one million eight hundred (1,000,800) doses of Pfizer vaccines against Covid-19 for Costa Rica. With this donation, the United States has donated one million five hundred thousand eight h...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:05:56 +0000
Covid-19 self-tests: where to get them and how much they cost
QCOSTARICA – Antigen self-tests to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19, are already within the reach in Costa Rica, as these devices are offered in pharmacies throughout the country and other distribution centers. ...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 21:39:26 +0000
ICE would buy electric buses and rent them to bus operators
QCOSTARICA – The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) – the State power and telecom –  could take on the business of buying electric buses and then renting them to public transport companies, according to the recommendatio...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:23:38 +0000
Argentina Seeks a Way Out (Again) of its Economic and Social Labyrinth
Q REPORTS (IPS)  Accustomed for decades to recurring economic crises, and hit hard in recent years by a steady loss of purchasing power, Argentines were informed on Friday, January 28 of a last-minute agreement with the IMF which, in the words of ce...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:13:35 +0000
El Salvador has scheduled for this year the construction of 30 CUBOs
Q24N – This year alone, the government of President Nayib Bukele plans to deliver 30 Centros Urbanos de Bienestar y Oportunidades (CUBO) – Urban Welfare and Opportunity Centers – to Salvadorans, spaces designed so that young people ...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:02:43 +0000
Lebanese Tiktoker chef prepares her version of the Gallo Pinto
Q MAGAZINE – Abir Saghir is a famous Lebanese TikTok, blogger, and chef with more than 9 million followers, dedicated to preparing local recipes but, above all, from different countries of the world, caused a furor among Costa Ricans. The tik t...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:55:16 +0000
Pollster predicted the political exile of the PAC
QCOSTARICA – With great statistical precision, pollster Opol Consultores predicted the political exile of the PAC, both in the presidential elections and in the votes for legislators, since at the close of the electoral ban in the middle of las...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:45:07 +0000
The 2022 elections cost Costa Ricans ¢19,8 billion colones
QCOSTARICA – Six national parties and two at the provincial level will be able to access resources from the political debt (deuda política) for their political campaigns in the elections on February 6. In total, the state (taxpayers) will hand...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:30:32 +0000
Exchange rate remained stable after elections, despite high trading volume
QCOSTARICA – The Monex exchange market, where amounts greater than US$1,000 are traded, had a quiet day after the result of the elections in Costa Rica, where the price of the currency literally did not move, although the amount traded was high...



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