2022 – Page 186

The Ministry of Public Health Coronavirus Bulletin #739 with the deadline of 27 March 2022 reports 30 new cases, down from 39 on the previous day. In the first 27 days of March there have been only six deaths in a population of around 11 million. For twelve consecutive days there have been no Covid-19 …

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President Luis Abinader received the Dominican Association of Foreign Investment Companies (Asiex) board of directors at the Presidential Palace on Friday, 25 March 2022. Biviana Riveiro, director of ProDominicana, the Dominican Republic export and investment agency, was present for the meeting. The president of the Asiex board, Ana Figueiredo, chief officer for Altice in the …

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The president of the JCE, Román Jáquez announced during a visit to New York to meet with representatives of the Dominican community that by mid April, validated birth certificates will be available in New York. They are already available in Spain. Jaquez was accompanied by fellow JCE board members Samir Chami Isa and Patricia Lorenzo. …

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More people are self-employed in the Dominican Republic than those that are in formal jobs, a report in Listin Diario reveals. Self-employed or independent workers as of December 2021 represented 38.9% (1,773,941 people) of the total employed (4,556,645), while the number of private sector employees reached only 36.7% (1,673,293). The number of employed was 74,333 …

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During the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, chaired by the Dominican Republic on March 24, Ambassador Jose Blanco voted for the country to sign the resolution “Humanitarian consequences of the aggression against Ukraine,” a document with which the participants demanded the “immediate cessation of hostilities by Russia, as well as any attack against …

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The Dominican ambassador concurrent to Uzbekistan, Hans Dannenberg Castellanos sees many opportunities for Dominican exports connecting through Uzbekistan, a country in Central Asian country. “We see Uzbekistan as an expanding economy that presents us with many opportunities,” he said in an interview during the International Investment Forum, which is being held from March 24-26 in …

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There is talk of a Haitian immigrant population of half a million to 1.5 million. Over the weekend, Enrique García, the general director of the Migration Agency shared sobering statistics: the Dominican government has only records for 31,000 legal Haitian residents. The border is relatively easy to cross and the Haitian government does not document …

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The National Social Security Council (CNSS) has extended the coverage of traffic accident injuries in the public hospitals and clinics until June 2022. This coverage is for persons covered under either of the two current plans: those who contribute under a payroll deduction scheme or those under the subsidized scheme. As a result of this …

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The Tuberculosis Program at the Ministry of Public Health reports over 3,000 active cases of the lung disease in the country. TB mortality rate in the Dominican Republic is at 1.8%, over twice the rate of the Covid-19 virus. If the person has any co-morbidities, the mortality rate climbs to 2.2%. So far, in 2022, …

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