Costa Rica’s COVID policies hope to balance health with economic reactivation, but the relaxed tourist requirements come at a time when global coronavirus cases are skyrocketing and deaths are rising.
Costa Rica began a gradual opening of air borders in August after the total closure of borders in March, when the first cases of the coronavirus were detected.
Peru registers more than 33,900 deaths from Covid-19 (with the highest mortality rate in the world, with 103 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants) and almost 877,000 confirmed cases.
Costa Rican citizens who return to the country can now avoid a 14-day quarantine, even if they haven’t remained in an authorized country for two weeks.
