LatinNews Daily - 22 June 2020

* Costa Rica and Honduras have both suspended plans to further reopen their economies, after registering record numbers of daily new coronavirus (Covid-19) cases. Costa Rica’s health minister Daniel Salas announced the Costa Rican government’s decision on 19 June, after the country registered a record 119 new infections that day. As of 21 June, Costa Rica had registered 2,213 confirmed cases, including 12 fatalities. In Honduras, the authorities have announced that the first phase of economic reopening will be suspended in the capital Tegucigalpa, after reporting a record 1,048 new cases across the country on 20 June. Honduras - whose President Juan Orlando Hernández has been admitted to hospital with Covid-19 - had registered 12,769 confirmed cases as of 21 June, including 363 fatalities. Following the latest announcement, restaurants, hardware shops, and other businesses which had been permitted to reopen will remain shut in the capital, with the process subject to evaluation in the rest of the country. The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac) has forecast that Costa Rica’s GDP will contract by 3.6% in 2020, and that Honduras's will shrink by 2.8%.

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