Toda la cobertura sobre coronavirus/COVID-19
Tres de las principales compras de pruebas de detección de anticuerpos a la COVID-19 siguieron un mismo esquema, y las tres resultaron fallidas. Ninguna de las transacciones se concretó según pactada y solamente una ha sido cancelada.
Salud aún no ha entregado al Instituto de Estadísticas los datos de los casos “únicos” negativos, los pendientes e inconclusos, y el total de pruebas realizadas actualizadas.
Manuel is 86 years old and lives alone in the Venezuela community in Río Piedras, in San Juan. To get to his small house , you have to walk down a narrow set of stairs on the edge of the road. He is sitting on his bed, shirtless, but covered with a sheet in the middle of a hot Thursday in May. The aspiring priest who delivers food to him every day introduces us. “It’s been a while, since I’ve seen you around here,” the man said, smiling, as he received his plate of hot food.
Socorro is a social worker at a center that provides services to older adults in Santurce, a neighborhood in San Juan. Since physical and social distancing measures began as a prevention strategy to contain COVID-19, she has received referrals to take in new participants who need help in the midst of the pandemic. However, the center’s team has been cautious, and although she stays in touch with the new participants, she has been unable to meet them in person. “Most of the people are in need and if we add to that, that many in that area of Barrio Obrero work offering services and cleaning houses, [now] can’t work,” she told the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in Spanish), while talking about the cases of older adults who have stopped earning money since the COVID-19 lock-down began in mid-March. “Some of our participants have had difficulty seeing doctors.
Puerto Rico produce solo alrededor de 15% de lo que consume, cifra que no ha aumentado al menos en la última década.
The Facebook Journalism Project announced today it is awarding $16 million in funds to support the operations of more than 200 news organizations in the United States and the territories. Among those selected is the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in Spanish), which will receive a contribution of $100,000 for its coverage related to the coronavirus pandemic through investigations, fact checking and litigation. The CPI was chosen among 2,000 news outlets that competed for the COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program. Almost 40% of the media outlets selected are digital publications and just over one-third are nonprofit entities. Campbell Brown, vice president of global news partnerships at Facebook, said about the staff of the selected entities that: “Not only are these journalists working tirelessly to serve people right now, but they’re focused on transformation, building innovative local news businesses that can continue to serve communities beyond the current pandemic.”
In keeping with the goal of the funding program, which aims to lay the foundation for the selected media outlet’s sustainability, in the CPI’s case, it will be invested in journalists, photojournalists, analysts and data experts, litigation expenses, equipment, publication in social networks, as well as in the general administration of the organization’s operations, among other areas.
The Puerto Rico Occupational Safety and Health Administration (PROSHA) received 680 complaints against employers related to the COVID-19 crisis from March 14 to April 29. Of those complaints, at least 124 were reported in April between the 1st and the 29, just before the government began the partial reopening after the curfew, and in the same week that the number of cases of infection by COVID-19 was expected to peak. The Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH, in Spanish) sent a chart where the total number of complaints differed from the figures it provided in writing to answer specific questions from the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in Spanish). The DTRH’s data shows that of the pandemic-related complaints filed against employers who kept their operations going during the quarantine, at least 50 come from hospital employees and eight from health service centers throughout the island. Among these: the HIMA Hospital in Bayamón; Auxilio Mutuo in San Juan; Menonita in Humacao; San Pablo in Caguas; Perea in Mayagüez; La Concepción in San Germán; and, Pavía in Toa Baja.
Puerto Rico ranked 87th in comparison to 128 other countries.
