The U.S. State Department on Thursday issued a Global Level 4 Health Advisory, asking its citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19.
We've received numerous questions over the past several days from readers asking if they should cancel upcoming trips to Costa Rica due to coronavirus.
Latin American countries stepped up measures to slow the advance of the coronavirus Wednesday, announcing a slew of restrictions on travelers from the worst-affected countries and shutting down major sports events.
Costa Rica received 3.1 million foreign visitors last year, 4.1% more than in 2018, and tourism remained one of the country's economic pillars, the government said Wednesday.
Over the first 11 months of 2019, more than half of the 2.8 million tourists who visited Costa Rica came from North America. Of those, nearly 1.2 million hailed from the United States.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a report detailing the probable cause of the Dec. 31, 2017 Nature Air crash that killed all 12 people on board.
