COVID-19 pandemic in Costa Rica

COVID-19 pandemic in Costa Rica
Map of cantons with confirmed coronavirus cases (as of 16 Abril 2021)
  ≥3343 cases
  ≥2016 cases
  ≥1350 cases
  ≥788 cases
  <788 cases
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
LocationCosta Rica
First outbreakTocumen International Airport, Panama (first case) and New York, United States (first confirmed)
Index caseAlajuela
Arrival date22 February 2020
(4 years, 9 months and 6 days)
Confirmed cases228577
Recovered196974
Deaths
3071
Government website
Ministerio de Salud

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Costa Rica on 6 March 2020, after a 49-year-old woman tourist from New York, United States, tested positive for the virus.

As of 13 May 2020, Costa Rica has reported 815 positive cases, 527 recoveries, and 7 deaths.[1]

One senior citizen, an 87-year-old man, died on 18 March and is the first COVID-19 death in Costa Rica. He was one of 25 people infected by a doctor in Alajuela.[2]

By 30 April, the country had the lowest case fatality rate in the Americas, at about 0.86%.[3] More Costa Ricans have died in the United States than in Costa Rica.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Dos meses desde el primer caso de COVID-19 en Costa Rica: 60 días de un abordaje científico de la emergencia". Ministerio de Salud. Archived from the original on 11 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  2. ↑ "Confirman primera muerte por COVID-19 en Costa Rica | Crhoy.com". CRHoy.com | Periodico Digital | Costa Rica Noticias 24/7 (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  3. ↑ Brooks, Darío (30 April 2020). "Cuál es la efectiva fórmula contra el coronavirus de Costa Rica, el país de América Latina donde mueren menos pacientes de covid-19". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  4. ↑ Corrales, Eric (25 April 2020). "Autoridades ya confirman 11 ticos muertos por COVID-19 en Estados Unidos | Teletica". Teletica (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 April 2020.