LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 31 March 2020

On 30 March Honduras’ President Juan Orlando Hernández announced new measures for micro, small, and medium-sized firms (MSMEs) in response to the stringent steps taken with the aim of containing the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19), which include the shutdown of all non-essential business activity.... Read More

* Panama’s institute for scientific research and high technology services (Indicasat AIP), an institute set up by the government in 2002, has announced that its scientists have transformed their labs, which are normally used for scientific research, into a small factory producing viral transport mediums (VTM), solutions of reagents which preserve the conditions of the coronavirus (Covid-19) so that it can be identified during testing.... Read More