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The Fortuna and Bayano hydroelectric plants, the only ones with reservoirs, have low water levels due to the scarce rainfall in the river basins that supply the reservoirs.
This has forced to use the rest of the generators, including the thermal, natural gas, wind and solar plants.

The National Directorate of Pharmacy and Drugs of the Ministry of Health (Minsa) assures that the time to complete the documentary evaluation of a sanitary registration has been reduced to around 30 days, which also depends on the user delivering all the requirements set out in the regulations.
Until now, this process could take up to a year and more, which is why the entity maintains continuous training for internal and external users.

The use of home tests to detect Covid-19; that companies and businesses apply swabs to their personnel; the reduction of the isolation time of infected persons from 10 to 5 days; and the elimination of quarantine for direct contacts who have not developed symptoms.
These are some of the measures adopted by the Ministry of Health (Minsa) this Monday, January 24, and which were communicated through Executive Decree 5 of 2022, signed by President Laurentino Cortizo and Minister Luis Francisco Sucre.

The Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Panama appealed to the will and discipline of the population, to continue moving towards national recovery and reactivation. “Maintaining and respecting the established biosecurity measures, and continuing with the successful vaccination process, which now includes children between 5 and 11 years old, has allowed us to move towards better days in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the arrival of the Omicron variant represents a new challenge in this fight”, said the association.

Panama put on climate diplomacy to achieve articulation with countries in the region such as Ecuador, Colombia and Costa Rica, the formation of new “blue leaders” that have 30% of their respective marine protected areas. “The goal is that the four countries become blue leaders, the four presidents are committed”, said in an interview with Efe the Panamanian Foreign Minister, Erika Mouynes, in the framework of her visit to the Ecuadorian archipelago to attend the signing of the decree of expansion of the Galapagos marine reserve.

The number of construction and new project plans increased in 2021 with respect to the two previous years. A report from the Single Window Directorate of the Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning (Miviot) revealed that 104 construction plans and 185 preliminary projects were approved. The 104 construction plan procedures represent 21 thousand 10 housing solutions, which reflects an increase of 25 more procedures than in 2020 and 38 more procedures compared to 2019.

At a time when Covid-19 cases continue to rise in the country, the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Panama (Cciap) urged this Sunday, January 16, the authorities to continue the “timely review” of isolation times for those infected and quarantine for their direct contacts.According to the association, the guidelines proposed by international epidemiological research centers such as the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) should be adopted. “This is important for Panama to be able to face the new wave of contagions, without impacting, once again, the functioning of the daily activities of the society”, the Chamber pointed out.

The plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice, by means of Agreement No. 664 of December 23, 2021, established that all judicial, support and administrative personnel of the Judicial Branch must submit a statement of assets.The agreement gives a term from January 17 to January 31 of this same month, for the officials working in the judicial and administrative offices of the public defense and defenders of the victims of crime, to complete electronically in their profile of the Integral System of Human Resources Management, the form of sworn statement of assets.

In its October 2021 Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) publication series, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), indicates that urban planners and specialists face numerous challenges when they must propose, design and implement UGI solutions, especially when their clients are local and national governments. Part of the reason for this is that there is a lack of knowledge of the existing solutions to achieve this.