Year: 2020
Health benefits continue for covid-19 says insurance provider
The insurance company ASSA announced on Saturday, March 14, that it will continue to provide benefits for medical expenses and...
Gorgas Institute heading Diagnostic Network to fight “critical situation”
A National Diagnostic Network involving public and private hospitals led by the Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies has...
OPINION: Recognizing the need for science funding
Authorities facing the coronavirus crisis in Panama are deploying the necessary resources so that different hospital units can carry out...
Coronavirus cases at 43 but some head to beaches as crisis growa
While the number of patients in Panama with coronavirus has climbed to 43 according to the national director of...
Health plan failed coronavirus first victim
The new coronavirus arrived in Panama before the Panama carnival festivities the carnivals - from February 21 to 26 -...
Alleged Capira killer in detention
Jonny Abdiel Martinez, 48, accused of the alleged femicide of 52-year-old Guadalupe Villareal stabbed to death at her country retreat...
Country arrest for ex-ambassador in laundering probe
Former Panamanian Ambassador to South Korea, Dr Jaime Lasso who was the link-man between Oderbrecht the Brazilian construction company and the...
$70 million to fight virus with 36 cases confirmed
Panama’s government has allocated $70 million to fight coronavirus as 9 more confirmed cases brought the total by 4 pm...
Consumer protection watchdog eyes soaring fruit prices
In Merca Panama, the largest agricultural market in the volume of products offered has fallen and prices have climbed...
Coronavirus reduces Panama growth projections
The Bank of America in a Match 11 report reduced projections of Panama's economic growth due to the coronavirus The...
Coronavirus death linked to traveling teacher
Panama’s first coronavirus victim, Norato González, principal of the Monsignor Francisco Beckman school, likely caught the virus from a teacher...
