Yesterday (Jan 16) Sinaproc announced "a red flag" prohibiting beach access in Panama and Panama West until March 15, and in Herrera until February 1. Today Minsa followed up with a similar statement.
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The Ministry of Health in Panama has announced after some confusion, which beaches are open in Panama. In this note it was stated, beaches remain closed in the provinces of Panama and Panama West.
Update: Beaches in Panama and Panama West are closed. After three days of confusion on this matter, the government has released information determining which beaches in Panama would reopen.
Beaches in Panama and Panama West will remain closed in Panama and Panama West through to March 15th. The news brought surfers, bodyboarders, and kiteboarders together to request changes.
Coronado Panama is home to a section of untouched dry forest. In all of Latin America, only 40% of dry forest remain, the rest have been lost to development and cleared or pasture.
January in Panama brings the start to the dry season. In the Pacific Beach area and Coronado Panama, this means no more rainy days, a nice breeze and of course, a water problem.
Today is martyrs day in Panama. The observation of Martyr’s day in Panama in 2021 falls on a Saturday which is a day of full quarantine in Panama and Panama West.
For anyone interested in viewing the 2021 Tide tables for the Bay of Chame they are officially live!
Panama’s health ministry has detailed the services that may be provided from January 4 to 14 when mobility restriction will be applied by gender and ID in Panama and Panama West.
Help us fund the water guardians, an important water monitoring program in Panama that will arm schools in remote areas of Panama to identify water problems and find solutions.
If you are in a car accident driving in Panama, your vehicle cannot move. Stay where you are and call 311. You should also call you insurance company, and indicate if you require an ambulance.
To enter Panama you are required to provide a negative Covid-19 PCR or Antigen) that was administered within 48 hours prior to traveling to Panama.
Members of Panama’s Fire department found a lifeless body of a young man reported missing Sunday afternoon in Punta Barco.
Activist, André Conte is on house arrest after being linked to the alleged hacking of Panama’s National Police computer systems in 2020.
Panama will receive 40,000 doses of the covid vaccine from the pharmaceutical duo Pfizer and BioNTech, which will arrive in the country between January 18 and 25 said the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The epidemiological week from December 20 to 26 was Panama’s worst week since the start of the Pandemic. It culminated with 19,140 new infections, 2031 people hospitalized, and 272 deaths.
January 4th until January 14th Panama and Panama West will remain under quarantine measures with a curfew, access to essential services, with circulation limited by gender, and the last number of ID.
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) announced today that the closure of rivers and beaches in the country will start Wednesday, December 23, and not this Friday, as originally communicated.
Luis Francisco Sucre, announced a total quarantine from December 25 to 28, 2020, and from January 1 to 4, 2021, as a measure to stop the advance of the coronavirus in Panama.
A complaint against the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo , was filed in the National Assembly (AN) for the alleged commission of the crimes of alteration of public order.
With confinement and other restrictions on mobility imposed in Panama since last March as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the numbers of reported sexual crimes against minors remain high.
Sunday, December 13th a helicopter crashed in Changuinola in the province of Bocas del toro causing an explosion.
Wednesday December 2 2020 a dismembered body was found in the district of Chame, in Panama West. The body was identified as a 21-year old man who was missing since Dec. 1st of this year.
The Minister of Health Luis Francisco Sucre announced Tuesday, December 1st 2020, a curfew and dry law for Panama West will come into affect December 4th 2020.
November 2 2020 environmental and scientific organizations called on the President to issue a "partial veto" of bill 131, which was approved April 13th 2020 to regulate fishing and aquaculture.
Thursday morning a man who had been reported missing in Punta Barco, San Carlos, was found lifeless near the river mouth at Tetas beach.
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) reported this Tuesday, November 10, the gradual return of the restriction measures in the country - if the Rt rate continues to rise.
Tuesday November 10th 2020 Panama celebrates the 199th anniversary of the First Cry of Independence. The first cry is an act that took place in La Villa de Los Santos , on November 10, 1821.
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