The Dominican Republic has responded to the Covid-19 threat as has much of the world. The first country in the Caribbean to officially be infected with Covid-19, introduced by an Italian tourist. He finally tested negative this week and as a result was dispatched from the Dominican hospital where he was hospitalized back on March 1.
The Dominican Republic has responded with the following measures (in no particular order):
The result of these measures is that the Dominican Republic has gone from one of the few countries where death grossly outnumbered recuperated from Covid-19, essentially guaranteeing that anyone hospitalized for the disease could expect to leave the place dead; to now having more recuperated than death and the gap continually getting bigger in favor of the recuperative.
This begs the question:
The Dominican Republic has responded with the following measures (in no particular order):
- Curfew during the night.
- Encouraging people to stay home during the day.
- Closure of non-essential businesses.
- Closure of air, sea, and land borders.
- Acquiring and distributing HCT drugs to treat patients with Covid-19.
- Ferry flights to take home foreigners and citizens of a handful of countries if they wish to go home. North America and Western Europe is the destination for most of these ferry flights.
- Impose social distancing guidelines.
- Mandatory use of masks while in public.
- Enabling private laboratory companies Amadita and La Referencia in testing for Covid-19, which in addition to government institutions, makes the DR one of the most geographic profusely countries in Latin America where testing for Covid-19 is possible.
The result of these measures is that the Dominican Republic has gone from one of the few countries where death grossly outnumbered recuperated from Covid-19, essentially guaranteeing that anyone hospitalized for the disease could expect to leave the place dead; to now having more recuperated than death and the gap continually getting bigger in favor of the recuperative.
This begs the question:
How would you categorize the response of the DR against Covid-19?