Tag: Peru

• Monday, July 27th 2020 - 10:28 UTC

  Latin America, the region most impacted with the coronavirus

  

  Coronavirus cases in Latin America for the first time have surpassed the combined infections in the United States and Canada, a tally showed on Sunday, amid a surge of infections in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Argentina.

• 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.

• Thursday, July 16th 2020 - 07:18 UTC

  After four months suspension, Peru reopens domestic air travel

  

  Peru reopened domestic air travel on Wednesday in a bid to reignite the economy as it announced a drop of 33% in GDP for May year-on-year. Long queues of passengers formed from dawn at the Jorge Chavez airport in the capital Lima with 17 domestic flights operating during the day.

• Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:11 UTC

  Italy bans travelers arriving from Brazil, Chile and Peru

  

  Italy on Thursday banned travelers from Brazil and 12 other countries it considers to pose a high risk of Covid-19 transmission. The full list comprises Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Kuwait, North Macedonia, Moldova, Oman, Panama and Peru.

• Thursday, July 9th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina with a daily record of Covid-19 cases, 3,604

  

  Argentina posted a daily record of 3,604 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as the country grapples with rising infections that are threatening its early success in stalling the spread of the virus.

• Monday, June 22nd 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Machu Picchu opening suspended; Cuzco residents fear tourist transmission of the virus

  

  The ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a jewel of Peruvian tourism, will not reopen in July as originally scheduled due to concerns over the coronavirus, local media reported on Sunday.

• Thursday, June 18th 2020 - 12:18 UTC

  Peru with more virus contagion cases than hard hit Italy

  

  Peru topped 240,000 total cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, surpassing hard-hit Italy, government data showed, even as the pace of infections has begun to moderate in the Andean nation.

• Monday, June 15th 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  Machu Picchu reopens in July but with a sharp reduction in daily visitors

  

  The ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a jewel of Peruvian tourism, will sharply reduce the number of daily visitors once it reopens from a virus-imposed closure in July, officials said.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:42 UTC

  The flourishing business of coffin making in Peru… with Venezuelan labor

  

  As the coronavirus-hit economy of Peru stagnated over the past three months, Lima coffin-maker Genaro Cabrera has seen his sales quadruple. “I never imagined working to such an extreme,” Cabrera said at his factory in the rundown district of San Juan de Lurigancho.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Peruvian mining sector activity expected to fall by 15% this year

  

  Production in Peru’s mining sector will fall by at least 15% this year, representing a loss in revenues of up to US$ 5 billion, due to disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, a top mining executive said on Wednesday.