{"id":142879,"date":"2020-06-16T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=142879"},"modified":"2020-06-16T13:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:05:30","slug":"putting-covid-19-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/06\/16\/putting-covid-19-in-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Covid-19 in perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Playa-Listin-Diario-e1585064574623.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-138231\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor\u2019s thoughts\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s to putting Covid-19 in perspective. Statistically-speaking, you are more likely to be infected with Covid-19 vacationing or living in Miami than during a visit to Punta Cana, Puerto Plata or Saman\u00e1 beach destinations in the Dominican Republic. La Altagracia province (where Punta Cana beach strip is located) has reported 566 cases as of 14 June and 2 deaths. This compares to 21,917 confirmed cases and 866 deaths in Miami-Dade alone. Miches, the new northern Punta Cana destination, is in El Seibo, where they have only been 35 confirmed cases, no deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Puerto Plata, a large urban area, reports 407 cases, and 32 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saman\u00e1 has also done relatively well, with only 57 confirmed cases and 1 death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, don\u2019t count out coming for a break at a Dominican beach this year. Gradually, several hotels and resorts opening and rentals are available, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s lots of room on the beaches, the tourists will be trickling in, so you will have the hotel much to yourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep social distance, wear protective face mask when near people, wash your hands and enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DOLORES VICIOSO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dolores@dr1.com\">dolores@dr1.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s thoughts\u2026 Here\u2019s to putting Covid-19 in perspective. Statistically-speaking, you are more likely to be infected with Covid-19 vacationing or living in Miami than during a visit to Punta Cana, Puerto Plata or Saman\u00e1 beach destinations in the Dominican Republic. La Altagracia province (where Punta Cana beach strip is located) has reported 566 cases as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/06\/16\/putting-covid-19-in-perspective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[272,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142914,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142879\/revisions\/142914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}