The President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, in a message addressed to the population, announced the elimination of preventive measures to avoid the spread of Covid-19 since Thursday  February 17. “As of today, all the restrictive measures imposed by Covid-19 are suspended.”

The use of masks in public spaces and in those private areas for public use will no longer be mandatory, nor will a vaccination card be required to enter the different spaces, nor will the capacity be limited, as a consequence of the “success” of the vaccination program. implemented in the Caribbean island for a year.

According to the Dominican president: “The country deserves and needs an emotional recovery and to leave behind the measures that we had to impose for a time, and are already in the past.” Emphasizing that prevention measures will be the individual responsibility of each citizen of the country. “After this long battle, we started to get our freedom back.”

Overcoming the pandemic

During his speech, the president of the Dominican Republic assured that the country has overcome “the worst of the pandemic” and that the daily infections and those of the last four weeks are in clear decline. While the mortality rate is one of the lowest on the planet and the occupation of intensive care beds is at highly controllable levels.

The nation registers 4,351 deaths during the pandemic and has suffered five waves since the virus began in March 2020.

Abinader described as a “great collective victory” the National Vaccination Plan, which reached its first year and stressed that Dominicans “were an example to the world.”

M. Rodríguez

Source: swissinfo.ch

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More than 111 million malware infections affected devices with Windows operating systems in 2020, data that shows a decrease in the impact of company devices on this type of malicious software.

Attacks decreased 12 % compared to 2019, according to Atlas VPN. Infections have also decreased by 11 % in consumer equipment, from 103.5 million in 2019 to 92.3 million in 2020, and 24%.

The cybersecurity company noted that this decline “could mean that cybercriminals found other, more effective methods to exploit victims online.”

Almost 83 % of the attacks were on personal devices, while 15 % targeted companies. A study by Malwarebytes offers the exact data of ‘malware’ detected in Windows: 111.014.261

Malicious advertisements and Trojans were the most common types of ‘malware’, with 35.5 million and 29.9 million cases, respectively. 31.5 million consumer devices struggled with ads, while business teams had nearly 4 million infections, a total drop of 22 % from 45.7 million in 2019.

Trojans fell one point more, from 38.5 million to 29.9 million infections last year, but they were the type of virus that affected businesses the most, with 6.1 million infections detected on devices. In the case of consumers, 23.7 million Trojan infections were recorded.

K. Tovar

Source: dpa

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