2020 – Page 223

Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) presidential candidate Luis Abinader announced that PRM advertising for the presidential and congressional election is suspended and that he will be working from home. He said his team is working on ideas for solutions to the difficult health and economic crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic. He said the PRM has …

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The presidential candidate for the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) Gonzalo Castillo urged Dominicans to stay at home and heed government recommendations. He said his political campaign would continue using its digital platform. Concurrently with the spreading of virus, political propaganda from the Castillo campaign continue to prevail in online publications and social media. He …

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The non-partisan civic movement and Dominican chapter of Transparency International, Participación Ciudadana, warned that it will be vigilant and will monitor government procurement during the state of emergency period. In a press release, the executive director of Participación Ciudadana, Carlos Pimentel, recalled that Organic Law No. 21-18 on the regulation of States of Exception, in …

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On the morning of Friday, 20 March 2020, the media carried stories following up on the declaration of the State of Emergency by President Danilo Medina on the previous Thursday evening. While the free newspapers in the morning covered the story, their front pages instead were a four-page cover advertisement by the Ministry of Public …

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The Chamber of Deputies approved on Thursday, 19 March 2020 the resolution that authorizes the President of the Republic to declare a national emergency for a period of 25 days, from Friday, 20 March to Sunday, 13 April. The state of exception gives the President extraordinary powers to implement the necessary measures to contain the …

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President Danilo Medina issued Decree 132-20 that creates the High Commission for the Prevention and Control of the Coronavirus. The commission members are representatives of the ministries of the Presidency, Public Health, Education, Tourism, Defense and the directors of the Superintendence of Health, the National Health Service, Promise, Senasa, Port Authority, Dominican Aviation Institute (Idac), …

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Dr. Jorge Marte Baez was appointed through Decree 131-20 on Thursday, 19 March 2020 as medical advisor to the Executive Branch. The physician, who has been the chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Center for Diagnosis, Advanced Medicine and Telemedicine (Cedimat) since 2013, will be the representative of the medical community at the …

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Hacienda Minister Donald Guerrero announced commercial banks agreed to set working hours of 8:30 am to 3 pm from Monday to Friday, and from 9 am to 1pm on Saturdays during the present Covid-19 virus crisis. Moreover, Guerrero said that the government is ordering half of public employees to work from home or stay at …

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French tourist tests positive for coronavirus in Nagua A French tourist was hospitalized at the Policlinica Union in Nagua for a severe cold and tested positive for the coronavirus. Dr. Lorenzo Tavarez, medical director of the Nagua health center, said the patient was in stable conditions in an isolation area. “In the current circumstances, neither …

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While Dominicans follow photographs of an empty Plaza San Marcos in Venice and Times Square in New York, local media is showing what Av. Duarte and the Av. Duarte con Paris intersection look like without people and traffic. After those who could had stocked up with food, most living in the Dominican Republic are following …

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