DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Listin Diario’s Marta Quéliz reached out to interview today 64-year old Claudio Pasqualini, the Italian tourists who on 1 March 2020 became the first official case of Covid-19 in the Dominican Republic. Pasqualini told the Listin Diario reporter that he has not had another bout with the disease, and that his wife and 29-year old son have remained disease free.

Pasqualini had come for a vacation in a Bayahibe-Dominicus area hotel on 22 February 2020. At the time, Covid-19 was an unknown disease, and the local physicians were ignorant of how to treat it. He told the reporter he has not taken another Caribbean visit. He does not discard returning to vacation in the Dominican Republic.

He told Listin Diario: “I have no sequels of Covid, I have completely healed, in spite of being positive to the virus for such a long time”.

He was just known in the Dominican...