The country with the world’s strictest lockdown is now the worst for excess deaths

The country with the world’s strictest lockdown is now the worst for excess deaths
Far below the immaculately tended park perched spectacularly atop Lima’s sea cliffs, wetsuited surfers once again dot the shimmering South Pacific. For a fleeting moment, as beams of sunlight pierce the “winter” cloud cover and locals jog, workout or just take in the view, it is easy to forget that Peru remains in the grips of what may be the most intense Covid-19 outbreak in the world. Officially, there have been more than 28,000 deaths, in a population of 31 million. But when all fatalities are taken into account, including those without a…Read more …

Lack of Scientists Thwarts COVID Response in One of the World’s Worst Hit Countries By some counts, Peru’s COVID-19 per capita death tally is the highest in the world.

Lack of Scientists Thwarts COVID Response in One of the World’s Worst Hit Countries By some counts, Peru’s COVID-19 per capita death tally is the highest in the world.
LIMA, Peru – Learning that my neighbor Pepe had died from COVID-19 was shocking. Equally so was the news that he had first tested positive a month previously, in early July. No one in my small apartment block had been notified. Pepe was in his 50s, with health problems and a professional carer. Even at the best of times, he rarely came out of his apartment, the only other one on my floor. It was only by chance, bumping into his devastated sister in the hallway, that I learned of both his passing…Read more …