Since last March 6, when it diagnosed its first case, Costa Rica accumulated 755 positives, of which 413 have recovered and 6 have died.
Officials of Costa Rica They reacted to the statements of President Nayib Bukele made on the national network, in which he said that the Central American country is not flattening the COVID-19 curve, but doing less daily tests.
“Costa Rica gives the perception of having flattened the curve, but all they are doing is that the number of daily tests has decreased”, were the statements of President Bukele.
Such affirmations have already generated reaction from several influential officials and personalities of Costa Rica who discredited the comments of the Salvadoran president.
Costa Rica’s foreign minister, Rodolfo Solano said this Wednesday during an interview on the Nuestra Voz program, that “President Bukele’s statements are statements that have no basis. The data expressed by President Bukele is far from all reality “.
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He also assured that Costa Rica will officially manifest “Legitimate concern about poor precision” of the statements of the Salvadoran president.
Solano said that on the morning of this day he would talk with the ambassador of El Salvador in Costa Rica, Ana Patricia Pineda to express to her “our legitimate concern about the poor precision of the data that President Bukele expressed.”
The Costa Rican foreign minister also expressed the importance of making the observation to the Salvadoran authorities to review what their sources of information are.
Professor of Economics and former Minister of Education and Planning of Costa Rica, Leonardo Garnier responded to Bukele with high-sounding words.
“This is what is called, first of all, arrogance. Second, stupidity. Third, Bukele “, He responded on Twitter, citing the Salvadoran president’s comment.
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The former Costa Rican minister also said that “Contrary to what some seem to think, the fight against COVID-19 is not a competition between countries, it is not about” winning the other “. On the contrary, either we all win or we all lose. The best thing that can happen to us is that the neighbors also give this fight successfully ”.
PLN deputy and former president of the Legislative Assembly, Carlos Ricardo Benavides also responded to Bukele.
“Costa Rica also “gives the perception” of having more than 70 years of not having an army, of investing in health and education, of having exemplary social security and of working every day to avoid authoritarianism and protect our democratic system ”he wrote on Twitter.
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The former Minister of Health of Costa RicaMaría L. Avila-Agüero also responded on social networks: The classic example of an ignorant person – with all due respect, Mr. President – speaking of what he does not know, he wrote on Twitter after the national network offered by the Salvadoran president.
Avila-Agüero is an infectious pediatrician, professor at the University of Costa Rica, Head of the Infectology Service at the CR Children’s Hospital; former Minister of Health 2006-2011 and researcher affiliated with CIDMA-Yale University.
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The academic and former vice president of Costa Rica Kevin Casas-Zamora He replied on Twitter to Bukele’s declarations: Costa Rica “gives the perception” of having laboriously built institutions since the 19th century, that work and that do not require anyone’s messianic delusions to protect people.
Since last March 6, when it diagnosed its first case, Costa Rica accumulated 755 positives, of which 413 have recovered and 6 have died.
For the fourth consecutive day, this Central American country registers more people recovered than active cases of COVID-19.
Currently there are 17 people hospitalized by COVID-19 in Costa Rica, of which 5 are in intensive care units.
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