2020 – Page 190

To a question on 17 April 2020 posed by highly respected Hoy newspaper’s medical reporter, Altagracia Ortiz, the Public Health Minister huffed and puffed about his reputation and the legality of the recent purchases by the country’s health authorities under the relaxed procurement regulations during the state of emergency. “Those who make those claims should …

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Citizen Participation, the local representative of Transparency International in the Dominican Republic, called for Congress to exercise its role for the control and oversight of the extraordinary powers granted to the Executive Branch by the National Congress during the state of emergency. The civic watch dog organization reminded the legislators that they are responsible for …

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Public Health Minister, Dr. Rafael Sánchez Cárdenas announced the meeting on Saturday, 18 April 2020 in Santiago of government representatives with representatives of the province, city, business and industry and civic society to present the health authorities’ plan for stepped up actions in Santiago to combat the Covid-19. Santiago Mayor-elect Abel Martinez says the implementation …

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Amado Alejandro Baez, executive director for the Presidential Committee on Covid Response, says the government seeks to shift from reacting to the health crisis to being proactive. He acknowledged that the government had just reacted to the exploding of the Covid-19 virus in San Francisco de Macoris. In other provinces, the government wants to be …

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Pimentel is a small city in the province of Duarte. Duarte is the province where community spread of the coronavirus began in the Dominican Republic. Over the weekend, Dr. Luis Rosario Socías, who is the president of the Pimentel city hall, denounced a large number of pneumonia deaths in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. …

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Several weeks ago, the authorities went to the small town of Bohechío in San Juan de la Maguana province to install a center for isolating persons with coronavirus symptoms or those already diagnosed with Covid-19 that cannot self-isolate at home. The place was said to be ideal. Not far from the town, there were abandoned …

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President Danilo Medina has placed a doctor with 30 years in the Navy in charge of public health in Duarte province. Duarte has the highest number of deaths attributed to Covid-19. The doctor, Valery Sanchez Diaz, is an epidemiologist. Her rank in the Navy is the equivalent to that of a full colonel in the …

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The Superintendent for Labor Risks and Health (Sisalril) reports on reaching an agreement with the Health Care Providers (ARS) and the Association of Private Clinics (Andeclip) for coverage of specialists attending those affected by the coronavirus. According to a press release, the medical specialists will receive RD$2,000 (instead of RD$800) per day for each patient …

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The National Institute for Ground Transportation and Traffic (Intrant) has announced that public transportation drivers (multi-fare paying taxis or conchos or publicos) will get government relief during the coronavirus crisis. Claudia de los Santos, the executive director of Intrant, told reporters that around 30,000 drivers that have fulfilled the requirements to be registered by Intrant, …

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The spread of the Covid-19 has shaken the hotel industry of the Dominican Republic to its roots. The National Association of Hotels and Tourism (Asonahores) expects losses of between US$889 million and US$1.96 billion. A study named “Perspectives and the Impact on Tourism in the Dominican Republic in the Face of the Covid-19” explains that …

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