The Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto is an 8,337-seat multi-purpose arena in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, built in 1974 for the XII Central American and Caribbean Games. It currently hosts local sporting events and concerts and held the basketball games during the 2003 Pan American Games. It is known as "La Media Naranja" for its characteristic orange roof. The arena is also used in the Miss Dominican Republic Pageant. It also hosted games from the 2010 World Youth Women's Handball Championship.
Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez is a Dominican lawyer and politician who is the current Attorney General of the Dominican Republic. He was appointed to the position of President Danilo Medina. Before becoming Attorney General, Rodríguez Sánchez served as the executive director of the CEI-RD (2012-2016). He is a member of the Central Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party, the current governing political party in Dominican Republic.
Carlos Enrique Rubio y Martínez de Ubago is a Dominican penalist lawyer, former intelligence agent, YouTuber, instagrammer, and columnist, who is exiled in the United States. He is most known for suing the Brazilian company Odebrecht in his country, Dominican Republic, for paying bribes to senior officials.
General elections will be held in the Dominican Republic on 5 July 2020 to elect a president, vice-president, 32 senators and 190 deputies. They had originally been planned for 17 May, but were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. They are the second elections since 1994 in which all positions will be elected simultaneously, and the first in Dominican history in which all authorities will be elected simultaneously and directly. If no presidential candidate wins in the first round of voting, there will be a run-off.
Milton Teófilo Morrison Ramírez(born August 14, 1975) is a Dominican electrical engineer, writer, businessperson, Dominican politician and a 2020 Dominican Republic presidential candidate.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Spain on 31 January 2020, when a German tourist tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in La Gomera, Canary Islands. Post-hoc genetic analysis has shown that at least 15 strains of the virus were imported and community transmission had begun by mid-February. By 13 March, cases had been confirmed in all 50 provinces of the country.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached North America in January 2020. As of 25 March 2020, all North American countries have reported at least one case of COVID-19.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was reported to have spread to Ecuador on 29 February 2020 when a woman in her 70s tested positive for the virus. Ecuador has been described in April as emerging as the "epicentre" of the pandemic in Latin America. The city of Guayaquil has been overwhelmed to the point where bodies are being left in the street. As of April 2020, Ecuador has been distributing cardboard coffins due to the country's struggle in evacuating the dead bodies. The government is planning to build emergency cemeteries to dispose of the bodies which are left in the streets. The number of deaths is believed to be significantly higher than the official figure due to a low rate of testing, with many thousands of excess deaths reported compared to the equivalent figure for a normal period. A New York Times analysis found 7,600 excess deaths had occurred from 1 March to 15 April as the mortality rate spiked to three times as much as usual, indicating that the official death toll is an underestimate by more than an order of magnitude.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached Mexico in February 2020. However, the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) reported two cases of COVID-19 in mid-January 2020 in the states of Nayarit and Tabasco, one case per state. As of 2 May, there had been 22,088 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Mexico and 2,061 reported deaths, although the Secretariat of Health estimated, in mid April 2020, that there were more than 26,000 cases in Mexico, because they were considering the total number of cases confirmed as a statistical sample.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Argentina on 3 March 2020, with 4,668 people being infected.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached Chile on March 2020. As of March 2020 there is a considerable COVID-19 outbreak in Chile. While initial cases had been imported from South East Asia and Europe, they expanded into a sizeable quantity of untraceable infections, placing the country within phase 4 of the pandemic as defined by the WHO, and surpassing a thousand confirmed cases on 25 March 2020.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached Colombia on 6 March 2020. As of 17 March, Colombia is denying entry to those who are not Colombian citizens, permanent residents or diplomats.
An ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019, a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, was first confirmed to have spread to Costa Rica on 6 March 2020, after a 49-year-old woman tourist from New York, United States, tested positive for the virus.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was reported to have spread to Peru on 6 March 2020 when a 25-year-old man who had traveled to Spain, France and the Czech Republic tested positive. On 15 March 2020, President Martín Vizcarra announced a country-wide lockdown, closing borders, restricting domestic travel, and forbidding nonessential business operations—excluding health facilities, food vendors, pharmacies, and financial institutions.
An ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, was first confirmed to have spread to Honduras on 10 March 2020, when two women tested positive for the disease after one of them landed on Toncontin International Airport in a flight from Madrid, Spain and the other on Ramón Villeda Morales Airport in a flight from Geneva, Switzerland. As of 30 April 2020, there are 804 confirmed cases in the country, 563 in the Cortes Department, 106 in the Francisco Morazan Department, 33 in the Colon Department, 28 in the Atlantida Department, and 28 ion the Yoro Department; 75 people have died and 112 have recovered from the virus and its complications. Confirmed cases have been reported in 14 of the country's 18 departments.
As part of an ongoing worldwide pandemic, the first two patients with COVID-19 in Venezuela were confirmed on 13 March 2020; the first death was reported on 26 March. However, the first record of a patient claiming to have symptoms of coronavirus disease dates back to 29 February 2020, with government officials suspecting that the first person carrying the virus could have entered the country as early as 25 February.
The 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Puerto Rico is an ongoing viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is part of the 2019–20 worldwide coronavirus pandemic.
The first cases of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in Uruguay were reported on 13 March by the Ministry of Public Health. As of March 2020 there is an ongoing outbreak in Uruguay, with the first few cases imported from Italy and Spain and local transmission occurring.
The People's Force is a political party in the Dominican Republic led by former President Leonel Fernández.
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached El Salvador on 18 March 2020. As of 2 May 2020, El Salvador reported 490 cases, 11 deaths and 154 recoveries. As of that date El Salvador had arrested more people for violating the quarantine than it had diagnosed cases of COVID-19, a total of 2,394 people had been arrested for violating quarantine orders, and 28,596 people had been tested for the virus. On 31 March 2020, the first COVID-19 death in El Salvador was confirmed.
