Costa Rica hopes plans to vaccinate every eligible adult against Covid-19, comprising about 3.7 million people. The first jabs were administered on December 24, 2020.
Costa Rica on Monday announced it will purchase 2 million additional doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in order to accelerate its fight against Covid-19.
Costa Rica's public-hospital system says it can no longer offer all critical patients the attention they require due to a saturation of resources by Covid-19 cases.
Costa Rican authorities are searching for a woman who disappeared Tuesday while hiking to Cerro Ventisqueros, the country's second-highest peak and part of Chirripó National Park.