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While COVID is devastating New York, California, and Washington State in the U.S.and the rest of the orbe with more than 438,000 cases and 19,000 deaths, Costa Rica is taking a whole series of extreme measures to stop this invisible enemy. 1. A restriction of vehicles between 10 pm and 5 am. Anyone who does

The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Costa Rica on March 6, 2020, when an American tourist from New York tested positive for the virus. Following is a timeline of the Coronavirus in Costa Rica. Information may change rapidly. We will update this page daily or more frequent as new information is

Costa Rica is well prepared. We are better prepared than many other countries, but if we do not all comply, it will be for not. Panama registered its first case of the new coronavirus three days after Costa Rica, on March 9, but as of Friday, April 3, the neighboring country has four times more

Costa Rica has confirmed 483 total cases of the novel coronavirus, the Health Ministry announced Tuesday afternoon. The figure marks a 16-person increase over the same time Monday. Twenty-five people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 — 14 of them in intensive care. The age range of patients in intensive care is from 35 to 85

Costa Rica is enacting a series of measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 during Semana Santa (Easter Holy Week). The measures, among the most significant taken in response to the coronavirus crisis, are part of Costa Rica’s efforts to reduce gatherings during what is typically the country’s biggest travel week. The measures are as

Costa Rica on Tuesday inaugurated a medical center that will exclusively treat patients with COVID-19. The facilities were created in less than two weeks by remodeling the National Rehabilitation Center (CENARE) in San José. They will house patients who test positive for COVID-19 who require hospitalization and specialized care. CENARE was retrofitted with a new