Tag: Peru police

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 10:18 UTC

  Peru: 170 police officers have died of Covid 19 and 10,000 have been infected

  

  At least 170 police officers in Peru have died after contracting the coronavirus while enforcing the South American nation's pandemic lockdown, the interior minister said on Thursday.

• Monday, April 27th 2020 - 07:40 UTC

  New Interior minister in Peru following the Coronavirus death of 17 police officers

  

  Seventeen police officers in Peru have died after contracting novel coronavirus while enforcing the nation's pandemic lockdown, officials and state media said. Authorities admitted earlier this week that at least 1,300 officers had been infected by COVID-19.