This Tuesday, May 27 Costa Rica registered 28 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 for a total of 984 patients, 461 women and 523 men out of which 804 are Costa Rica and 180 are foreigners.
Out of the 28 new cases reported today, 18 were already in preventive isolation due to a sanitary order. 21 are national citizens and 7 are foreigners.

639 people have successfully recovered and currently 12 people are hospitalized, 2 in the intensive care unit.

On Monday the number of new positives was 21 while Tuesday there were only 5, numbers that remain within the expected considering that economic activities have partially reactivated in the past couple of days.

“Our main sanitary risk right now is the high circulation of the virus in Nicaragua. This is the main risk we have and we must be very diligent”, commented the Minister of Health, Daniel Salas.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) confirmed that Nicaragua is already in the phase of community transmission of Covid-19 pandemic. Community transmission is when the transmission has reached a point where it is no longer possible to identify the source of origin of the infection.

“Nicaragua already has community transmission. We have not yet reached that status, we have to remain focused on our status”, continued Salas, who explained Costa Rica is still in phase 3 as established by the World Health Organization, which means there are sporadic cases or small clusters of disease in people, these have been identified and isolated and therefore has not resulted in human-to-human transmission sufficient to sustain community-level outbreaks.

The Minister insisted on maintaining all the recommended sanitary measures, specially social distancing and social bubbles.