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Presidency Minister Gustavo Montalvo is urging the population to continue with the stay-home measures. Montalvo is the coordinator of the government High Commission for the Prevention of Coronavirus. Supermarkets, pharmacies and banks continue to be open. The Minister urges people keep distance of two meters when making queues. He said when speaking on 25 March …

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The High Commission for the Prevention of Coronavirus in the Dominican Republic authorized the militarization of the northeastern city of San Francisco de Macoris. The province is fourth in number of cases with 29 positives and 4 deaths as of Bulletin No. 6 dated 25 March 2020. The actions are taken to ensure the population …

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An isolation center for Covid-19 patients is under installation by the government at the Boca Chica naval base. The center is going up in Los Tanquecitos sector in Andrés, Boca Chica. The area had been used for housing Navy personnel that are being relocated to Sans Souci. As reported, the isolation center will be accessed …

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The Ministry of Public Health says it has approved the local use of fast response tests for diagnosing Covid-19 in the Dominican Republic. Nevertheless, he said that the tests are only authorized to specific health centers and need to be certified by the Ministry. The Minister of Public Health says that these are temporary tests …

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Orlando Jorge Villegas, who is running for deputy for the National District for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), called for the government to implement the program of free testing as proposed by PRM presidential candidate Luis Abinader. Abinader has said the PRM can bring 40,000 Covid rapid diagnostic tests and has not yet done so …

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On 10 March 2020, in an appearance on the TeleRadio America TV noontime show of Roberto Castillo on Channel 33, SuperCanal, the beloved philanthropist Dr. Felix Antonio Cruz Jiminián had downplayed the Covid-19 virus. On that day, Dr. Cruz Jiminián had taken off time from his clinic on Av. Ortega y Gasset in Cristo Rey …

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Minnesota Timberwolves player Karl-Anthony Towns took to Instagram to share his mother’s fight with Covid-19 in the hope it would encourage others to follow precautions to stop its spread. His mother is hospitalized in a medically-induced coma with the disease in New York City. “We can beat this, but this is serious and we need …

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The Embassy of Canada in the Dominican Republic says there still may be stand by seating on a last flight to Canada that is scheduled to leave from the Puerto Plata Gregorio Luperón International Airport at 8:35pm on Thursday, 26 March 2020. All Dominican airports are closed for outgoing and incoming traffic, with the exception …

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The Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) obtained 23 of the 37 city councilor seats for the National District in the 15 March 2020 extraordinary municipal elections. The ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) followed with 13 positions. The Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) won 1. The PRM councilor-elects are:District 1: Mario Sosa, Eliazar Reynoso Medrano, Liz Mieses, …

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The general coordinator of the High Commission for the Prevention of Coronavirus Gustavo Montalvo warned that people who violate quarantine and isolation measures could be fined in an exemplary manner, as a way of making them understand the imperative need for them to remain in their homes so that the country can succeed in defeating …

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