{"id":160723,"date":"2021-06-30T06:34:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T10:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=160723"},"modified":"2021-07-01T08:26:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:26:53","slug":"covid-19-restrictions-to-continue-through-7-july-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/06\/30\/covid-19-restrictions-to-continue-through-7-july-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 restrictions to continue through 7 July 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Palacio-Nacional-2-Presidencia-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151529\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Presidency extended for another week the same restrictions in effect to curtail the spread of Covid-19 in the Dominican Republic. Decree 401-21 extends the restrictions to 7 July 2021. The Abinader administration has been closely monitoring the restrictions every week, seeking a balance between health and the economy. The measures have worked to reduce the outbreak that increased cases in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The curfew in place now through 7 July 2021 calls for lockdown from 6pm to 5am the seven days of the week in the capital city and 24 provinces. There is a three-hour free circulation period continues. The government also keeps the dry law (ban on sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages) that continues to be in effect daily from 3pm a 5am, but authorizes the sale of these for takeout or delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measures are applicable in: the National District and the provinces of Santo Domingo (Greater Santo Domingo), Azua, Bahoruco, Barahona, Dajab\u00f3n, El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a, El Seibo, Hato Mayor, Hermanas Mirabal, Independencia, La Romana, Mar\u00eda Trinidad S\u00e1nchez, Monse\u00f1or Nouel, Montecristi, Monte Plata, Pedernales, Peravia, San Crist\u00f3bal, San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa, San Juan de la Maguana, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds, S\u00e1nchez Ram\u00edrez, Santiago Rodr\u00edguez and Valverde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the country\u2019s major tourism destinations (Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, La Vega and Saman\u00e1) have been exempt from the new restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exceptions to the extended curfew are the provinces of Duarte, Espaillat, La Altagracia (Punta Cana), La Vega (Jarabacoa and Constanza), Puerto Plata, Saman\u00e1 and Santiago, where the curfew is from 10pm to 5am from Monday to Friday and from 9pm to 5am on Saturdays and Sundays, with the three hours of mobility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intention is to reduce mobility and people mixing when new highly transmissible variants of the virus are in circulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/decretos\/decreto-401-21\">Presidency <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 June 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency extended for another week the same restrictions in effect to curtail the spread of Covid-19 in the Dominican Republic. Decree 401-21 extends the restrictions to 7 July 2021. The Abinader administration has been closely monitoring the restrictions every week, seeking a balance between health and the economy. The measures have worked to reduce &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/06\/30\/covid-19-restrictions-to-continue-through-7-july-2021\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160723"}],"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=160723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160778,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160723\/revisions\/160778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}