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.
Over the last five days, sloths at the Toucan Rescue Ranch have participated in grueling tests of strength and endurance as part of the 2020 Sloth Ironman Games.
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.
