Peru exceeded 9,000 dead on Saturday due to the new coronavirus, three days before the end of a mandatory national quarantine of more than 100 days due to the pandemic, the Ministry of Health reported.
Deaths from covid-19 rose to 9,135, an increase from 196 in the last 24 hours, while infections rose to 275,989, after adding 3,625 new cases.
The number of recovered patients also continues to rise and now stands at 164,024, according to the latest daily report.
The country had exceeded 8,000 deaths from the pandemic last Sunday.
Peru a national quarantine of more than 100 days will end on TuesdayBut it will maintain border closures and mandatory confinement in the seven regions most affected by the pandemic, the government ordered on Friday.
In those seven departments (out of a total of 25) just over six million of the 33 million Peruvians live.
The quarantine will end in the capital Lima, a city of 10 million inhabitants where the coronavirus is “descending”, according to the government, despite accumulating the 70% of the country’s cases.
Peru has overtaken Spain and Italy in the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus and is in sixth place globally.
It is the second country in Latin America in cases behind Brazil and third in total deaths, after the South American giant and Mexico.
In Peruvian hospitals there are 10,762 patients with Covid-19, according to the official balance, which has the health system on the verge of collapse and with a shortage of oxygen to treat seriously ill patients.
In the city of Iquitos in the Amazon region of Loreto, a group of residents protested this morning to request the local authorities to exhume their relatives, buried without their consent in a remote place, which they call “Covid Cemetery”.
People came to the place with photographs and posters where claims for a “dignified burial” were read.
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