COVID-19 pandemic in Peru

viric outbreak in Peru

The COVID-19 pandemic was reported to have spread to Peru on 6 March 2020 when a 25-year-old man who had travelled to Spain, France and the Czech Republic tested positive.[1]

COVID-19 pandemic in Peru
Departments with confirmed coronavirus cases
  Confirmed 1–9
  Confirmed 10–59
  Confirmed 60–99
  Confirmed 100–299
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
LocationPeru
First outbreakWuhan, Hubei, China via Czech Republic, France and Spain
Index caseLima
Arrival date6 March 2020
(4 years, 2 weeks and 6 days)
Confirmed cases939,931
Recovered730,595
Deaths
35,317
Government website
https://covid19.minsa.gob.pe/sala_situacional.asp

On 15 March 2020, President Martín Vizcarra announced a country-wide lockdown, closing borders, slowing down domestic travel, and ending nonessential business, except health facilities, food vendors, pharmacies, and financial institutions.

Peru, with a total population of 32 million,[2] had a total of 500 intensive care unit (ICU) beds available as of April 2020,[3] and was working on expanding its nation-wide ventilator system from 40 to 540 machines within the coming months.

The engineering and production was supplied by the Peruvian military.[4]

References change

  1. "Peru records first confirmed case of coronavirus, President Vizcarra says". Reuters. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020 – via www.reuters.com.
  2. "Peru Population (2020) – Worldometer". www.worldometers.info. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  3. PERÚ, Empresa Peruana de Servicios Editoriales S. A. EDITORA. "Peru President implements further restrictions on circulation to curb COVID-19". andina.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  4. World, Republic. "Peru manufactures respirators for virus patients". Republic World. Retrieved 2020-04-05.