COVID-19 pandemic in Costa Rica | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Costa Rica |
First outbreak | Tocumen International Airport, Panama (first case), and New York, United States (first confirmed) |
Index case | Alajuela |
Arrival date | 6 March 2020 (4 years, 5 months, 3 weeks and 4 days) |
Confirmed cases | 1,234,701[1] |
Recovered | 1,223,056[2] |
Deaths | 9,372[1] |
Fatality rate | 0.83% |
Vaccinations | 10,166,273 |
Government website | |
Ministerio de Salud |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Costa Rica was a part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was 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.[3]
As of 9 August 2022[update], Costa Rica has reported 1,057,695 positive cases, and 8,774 deaths.[4]
As of 31 March 2022[update], there have been 10,166,273 vaccine doses applied. Among these, 4,336,171 are first dosages, 3,971,404 are second dosages, and 1,858,698 are third doses .[5]
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