Tag: Martin Vizcarra

• Saturday, August 15th 2020 - 09:52 UTC

  Health care workers in Peru protest demanding better pay and working conditions

  

  Health care workers in Peru held a demonstration demanding better pay and working conditions as more of their colleagues become infected with the coronavirus. Members of medical workers’ unions appealed for government help during a rally outside the Health Ministry.

• Friday, August 14th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Peru with half a million coronavirus contagions and the highest death toll in the region

  

  Peru surpassed half a million coronavirus cases and has the highest death toll in Latin America, according to Health Ministry data released on Thursday, as the government struggles to contain a recent surge in infections.

• Saturday, July 25th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Video of desperate mother begging to save her husband from Covid-19 goes viral in Peru

  

  A video of a mother running behind a van carrying Peru's President Martin Vizcarra and begging him to save her husband from COVID-19, has gone viral. “Mr. President, Don't go!” screams a tearful Celia Capira as she begs for a hospital bed for her husband in the video shot on Sunday in Peru's second-largest city, Arequipa.

• Friday, July 17th 2020 - 07:19 UTC

  Peruvian president reshuffles cabinet following the harsh economic impact of the pandemic

  

  Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra undertook a major government reshuffles this week, replacing more than half his cabinet as his popularity has taken a hit due to the harsh economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and a lengthy lockdown.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2020 - 08:26 UTC

  Peru's economic activity plunges 405% year on year in April

  

  Peru´s economic activity sank 40.49% year-on-year in April, its worst-ever percentage drop in output, as a national lockdown to combat the coronavirus slammed the brakes on industry across the country, the government said.

• Thursday, May 28th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Peruvian record lockdown: three months paralyzing the economy

  

  The health system in Peru is on the brink of collapse, with public hospitals facing drastic equipment shortages amid a rising number of coronavirus cases. A University of Washington study has projected that Covid-19 deaths in Peru will reach nearly 20,000 by August, indicating that demand is likely to outstrip the supply of beds in intensive care units.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Overwhelmed by Covid-19, Peru extends nationwide lockdown until end of June

  

  Peru on Friday extended its state of emergency and a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic until the end of June, marking one of the longest periods of mandatory isolation in the world.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 10:18 UTC

  Following transgender complaints, Peru cancels “gender-based lockdown”

  

  Peru canceled a controversial measure restricting public movement by gender to try to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, after just over a week. A decree in the official gazette stated that instead of men and women leaving their homes on alternate days “to buy food, pharmaceutical products and perform financial operations, only one person per family unit can move from Monday to Saturday.”

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Peruvian elections return an atomized Congress to the advantage of president Vizcarra

  

  The opposition’s crushing defeat in Peru’s legislative elections has left a fragmented Congress without a dominant party, which should help President Martin Vizcarra pass his reforms with the support of centrist parties.

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Parliamentary election in Peru that hopefully will cut the influence of Fujimorism

  

  Peru will hold separate parliamentary elections for the first time on Sunday as President Martin Vizcarra looks to break the influence of the main opposition party of Keiko Fujimori.