18/03/2020
Dominican Republic shutting down flights Thursday. This information was just posted in An article written in Spanish Shared by Renny Avila. I plugged it into google translate.
The President of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina, reported tonight that he will send this Wednesday to the National Congress the request for a declaration of national emergency in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Likewise, the president said that the decision was made to close the country's borders by land, sea and air, for the next 15 days. This measure and the next ones will come into effect at 6:00 am on Thursday 19.
"From that moment, only the entry of ferry planes will be allowed for the departure of foreign citizens who want to return to their countries and the arrival of planes, cargo ships and fuels to guarantee supplies to the population," he added in a televised address.
Likewise, teaching is suspended in all school and university centers until next Monday, April 13.
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Likewise, an exception period of 15 days in home isolation was established for all persons who have been in the last two weeks in any of the places for which the suspension of flights has been established. This includes Dominican students who were out of the country.
"It is very important that all these people in quarantine take the necessary precautions to guarantee that, if any of them is a carrier of the coronavirus, it will not have an opportunity to spread," he urged.
"Additionally, we have started a massive information campaign for the population, by way of a non-face-to-face, in order to safeguard the necessary social distancing," he said.
