Posted : 2020-12-19 10:06
Updated : 2020-12-21 16:14
Costa Rican Vice Minister for Bilateral Affairs and International Cooperation Adriana Bolanos Argueta poses during an interview with The Korea Times at the Costa Rican Embassy in Seoul, Nov. 25. The second-in-command of the Costa Rican foreign ministry, she visited Korea in late November to attend the 2020 Korea-Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Future Cooperation Forum and also to discuss bilateral issues. / Korea Times photo by Yi Whan-woo
By Yi Whan-woo
Many countries have been racing to develop effective vaccines and treatments to counter COVID-19.
Costa Rica wants to be counted in, too, with ongoing trials of a coronavirus treatment based on its rich experience of using horse antibodies to develop snake antivenoms.