Cuba Economy.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A few tours per day, and some tips as a bonus, and tour guides are living well. Generally speaking, any independent Cuban who works with tourists usually makes a lot of money. Waitress and bar tending jobs are also highly prized. The official pay is very low, but tips on a good night can be very lucrative                                             

Dominican Republic is the country that makes up the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean region. Haiti covers the island's western end. The Dominican Republic is about 575 miles (925 kilometers) southeast of Miami, Florida. The country is a land of fertile valleys and forested mountains.

Santo Domingo, a busy port city, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic. The country's name in Spanish, the official language, is Republica Dominicana.

2020 OCT 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Investigators publish new report on Coronavirus - COVID-19. According to news reporting originating in Zaragoza, Spain, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "To examine mortality rates related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by gender among European countries. PubMed, preprint medRxiv and bioRxiv repositories, and Google were searched for the terms COVID-19, mortality rates, gender, and Europe."

Financial support for this research came from Sistema de Investigacion y Desarrollo.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria, "Only Google provided a website with appropriate information. COVID-19 cases and deaths from European countries were extracted by gender from the Global Health 50/50 repository up to May 23, 2020. Extracted data included country, the total number of COVID-19 cases and the number of related deaths by gender. Random effects models with the inverse variance method were used for meta-analyses. Results are reported as death risk ratios (RRs). We identified information from 23 European countries that reported separately by gender mortality rates related to COVID-19. The sample comprised 484,919 men and 605,229 women positive for COVID-19. The mortality rate was significantly higher in men than in women (risk ratio=1.60, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 1.53, 1.68). The trend was similar when countries reporting <5000, or <10,000 cases were excluded from the analysis (RR=1.60, 95 % CI 1.52, 1.69 and RR=1.68; CI 1.62, 1.76, respectivel

Cuba’s Economy Was Hurting. The Pandemic Brought a Food Crisis.

The island was able to control the coronavirus, but the dearth of tourists in the pandemic’s wake strangled an economy already damaged by mismanagement and U.S. sanctions

The line to get into the government-run supermarket, which can mean a wait of eight or 10 hours, was short, just two hours long. And better yet, the guide, Rainer Companioni Sánchez, scored toothpaste — a rare find — and splurged $3 on canned meat.

“It’s the first time we have seen toothpaste in a long time,” he said, sharing the victory with his girlfriend. “The meat in that can is very, very expensive, but we each bought one simply because sometimes in an emergency there is no meat anywhere.”

Cuba, a police state with a strong public health care system, was able to quickly control the coronavirus, even as the pandemic threw wealthier nations into crisis. But its economy, already hurting from crippling U.S. sanctions and mismanagement, was particularly vulnerable to the economic devastation that followed.

As nations closed airports and locked down borders to combat the spread of the virus, tourist travel to Cuba plummeted and the island lost an important source of hard currency, plunging it into one of the worst food shortages in nearly 25 years.