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The Embassy of China sent a written statement to the Listin Diario to respond to statements made by visiting US Admiral Craig Faller, commander of the US Southcom, in an interview with Listin Diario. In the document, China says that there is democracy in China, but it is one in the Chinese way. During the …

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Vice President Raquel Peña, Public Health Minister Daniel Rivera and China ambassador Zhang Run were at Las Americas International on Wednesday, 21 April 2021 in the afternoon to receive the batch of 500,000 Chinese Sinovac/Coronavac vaccines that arrived. The doses arrived on board a TUIFly flight via Brussels, Belgium. The shipment also included 2 million …

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The spread of Covid-19 in the Dominican Republic has been relatively stable in the Dominican Republic even when almost complete mobility is back. Nationwide, the positivity rate is 10.62%. The focus of the disease is primarily in Greater Santo Domingo and Santiago, the two largest urban centers. In the rest of the country, the disease …

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Travel to the Dominican Republic continues to recover. Santo Domingo’s Las Americas International Airport (SDQ) is rebounding thanks to a combination of tourism and friends and family travelers. As reported by Aerodom marketing director Frederic Andrieu to Simple Flying, Las Americas was the fourth-highest of the 32 airports fully or partly managed by the Vinci …

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For November 2021, the company announces it will present “Kooza” in Punta Cana in November 2021. The management sees Punta Cana as a prime travel option for US travelers in these pandemic times. Cirque du Soleil announces it will relaunch its tours with two of its longest-running live shows going live in Las Vegas, “Mystère” …

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The US Coast Guard arrested three Dominicans for drug trafficking off the coast of Puerto Rico. Two men and a woman were caught attempting to smuggle a cocaine shipment estimated at US$20 million into Puerto Rico. The boat was interdicted 45 nautical miles north of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. A US Coast Guard inspection of the …

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Former secretary of Public Health, Dr. Erasmo Vasquez died on Wednesday, 21 April 2021, of lung complications of Covid-19. Born in 1948, he died at the Clínica Union Medica del Norte in Santiago where he was taken after spending 20 days in a medical center in La Vega. He is the father-in-law of the senator …

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The Ministry of Public Health’s Epidemiology Department Coronavirus Bulletin #398 reports 556 new PCR cases for the Tuesday, 20 April 2021 deadline. The cases compare to the 7-day nationwide average for PCR confirmed cases that is 449. As per Bulletin #398, with the deadline of 20 April 2021, the Ministry of Public Health has registered …

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President Luis Abinader said in Andorra when participating in pre-Iberoamerican Summit events, that the great challenge facing countries is to avoid a financial crisis once the Covid-19 pandemic is over. “One issue that we must address at this summit, and later with all countries, is that from this pandemic crisis, we cannot move on to …

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Vice President of the Republic Raquel Peña announced that a plane carrying 500,000 doses of vaccines has taken off from China and is expected to arrive Wednesday, 21 April 2021, in the afternoon. The vaccines are needed to continue the vaccination program in the Dominican Republic. The vaccines contracted to Oxford/AstraZeneca, Pfizer and the amounts …

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