BRASIL E COSTA RICA NO COMBATE A PANDEMIA DE COVID-19

Abstract

This research is part of the new COVID-19 scenario. From the methodological cut-off - number of deaths per million inhabitants – it has been chosen the two Latin American countries that, until the date of writing of the work, are at the two extremes of the spectrum of the disease: the lower and the higher number of fatal victims. Thus, by this cut-off presented, this study will seek to answer which public measures Brazil and Costa Rica have been carrying out in the fight against COVID-19, taking into consideration the guidelines established and adopted by the World Health Organization. In the context, the general objective is to establish a dialogue between the two scenarios, Brazilian and Costa Rican, in the fight against COVID-19; making it a specific objective to analyze information on the public policies carried out by the two countries that make up the object of the art of this research. In order to comply with the above, this basic and exploratory research uses a critical qualitative methodology, integrating elements that come from the analysis of reports, specialized texts, legislation and national and international protocols in order to build a critical theoretical framework. The article concludes the Costa Rican government's excellence in this pandemic scenario, as well as the need for the Brazilian government to act with greater social responsibility, as well as to provide a counterpart of resources to institutions and fund epidemiological research groups on the disease. Furthermore, this scenario of the COVID-19 Pandemic shows the importance of rediscovering International Relations and International Law, acting cooperatively for solutions of the global order.