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Margarita Gurdián: "The pandemic has no political colors" 0:49
(CNN Spanish) - The Observatorio Cuidadano Covid-19 raised to 1,270 the number of suspected cases of coronavirus until May 13, including those reported by the Ministry of Health. According to the report, there were 266 deaths from pneumonia and suspected of covid-19, including those recognized by the Minsa.
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica through a letter sent on May 14 to the director of the Pan American Health Organization, Carissa
Etiene, called for "urgent and forceful" actions in the face of the covid-19 situation in Nicaragua.
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"We justify our request in the statement made by more than 600 Nicaraguan health professionals, in which they expose the dramatic conditions
they face to carry out their work and in which they reveal problems such as the under-registration of infections and deaths, concealment of relevant information, the absence of containment measures ”.
According to Costa Rican legislators, the reckless handling of the health crisis by the Nicaraguan government may have effects in neighboring countries such as
Costa Rica, which is why they request an external evaluation of the management of the pandemic.
For its part, the Nicaraguan National Assembly issued this May 15, a declaration of rejection and condemnation of Costa Rica's request.
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"We denounce and reject these reiterated and offensive arrogant, intrusive and shameless attitudes and declarations of Costa Rican deputies of the most
backward and rancid right, arrogant and presumptuous that at all times and from fascist practical visions coincide in subordinating themselves to empires," says the statement.
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