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Within days of the Health portfolio, Joselyn Chacón, the new minister of health, lives tense moments and a lot of controversy.

And it is that President Rodrigo Chaves shook the country by eliminating the mandatory use of the mask and incidentally, questioning the demand for vaccination against COVID-19, and then retracting the latter, on Wednesday.

Joselyn Chacón, Minister of Health: “This virus has taught us a lot, and after so long we know that taking care of ourselves also implies washing our hands, maintaining distancing. What we are giving is a vote of trust. Pandemic management is not exclusive to the government, it is everyone”.

However, Chacón points out that at no time they were populist measures, while she makes it clear that, if merits, the Ministry of Health could impose health measures to stop the fifth wave of the pandemic that Costa Rica is now experiencing.

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