Tag: Peru

• 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.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 08:16 UTC

  PAHO growing concerns with the accelerating pandemic in Brazil, Peru and Chile

  

  International health authorities expressed concern on Tuesday over signs the spread of the new coronavirus is still accelerating in Brazil, Peru, and Chile. The Pan American Health Organization, which serves as the regional office for the World Health Organization, has been monitoring the pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• 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.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Peruvian city prays to the Virgin of Socorro, flown in a police helicopter, for the end of coronavirus

  

  Every five years, a statue of the Virgin of Socorro is paraded through the streets of Peru’s third-largest city, Trujillo. But this year, the coronavirus lockdown meant the city’s patron saint could not make her rounds as usual.

• Thursday, May 21st 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Peru and the virus: crematoriums working on 24/7 shifts and queues of funeral cars outside hospitals

  

  Peru has become the second Latin American country after Brazil to reach 100,000 coronavirus cases, according to Health Ministry figures out on Wednesday. The number of dead from Covid-19 has also passed 3,000, with only Brazil and Mexico have suffered more. Both cases and deaths have tripled since April 30.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  LATAM Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru to lay off 1,400 workers

  

  LATAM Airlines Group, the largest airline conglomerate in Latin America, announced it will lay off 1,400 workers from its branches in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The news was confirmed by the company on May 15, after Reuters released an internal video where LATAM CEO Roberto Alvo announced the measures to its employees.

• 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.

• Saturday, April 25th 2020 - 08:01 UTC

  Amazon indigenous tribes claim to UN, Peru is responsible of “ethnocide by inaction”

  

  Indigenous tribes in Peru's Amazon say the government has left them to fend for themselves against the coronavirus, risking “ethnocide by inaction,” according to a letter from natives to the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

• 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.”

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Peruvian police arrest Chinese citizen illegally conducting COVID-19 tests with stolen kits

  

  Police in Lima on Sunday arrested a Chinese citizen for illegally conducting rapid COVID-19 tests on the public with newly-delivered kits stolen from Peru's health ministry. Zhang Tianxing, 36, was arrested in the Brena district of Lima as he was about to take samples from two women at the door of their house, police said.