Special Report: COVID-19 Impact on Peru – From First Case to Present Day

On March 6, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was officially recorded in Peru in a 25-year-old young man who was in Spain, France and the Czech Republic. Nine days later, on a day like today, March 15, the then president Martín Vizcarra decreed a general quarantine in the country, as well as the closure of its borders for a period of 15 days to combat the new coronavirus pandemic. A measure that was later expanded several times, sinking Peru’s economy and without this leading to a reduction in infections and deaths.

Since then, the virus has mutated and although it lost the category of pandemic, it is still a concern for the country’s health authorities.

Four years after the high peaks of this disease, which claimed the lives of 220,716 compatriots, Perú21 will publish this Sunday a special supplement on COVID-19.

There will be a critical analysis of how vulnerable we were to the virus; the deplorable infrastructure of our health system, the social and economic cost due to allegations of corruption; the disorganization to face the pandemic and the poor management of the then president Martín Vizcarra, who had the audacity to secretly get vaccinated to protect himself from evil.

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We will also report on the solidarity action of the companies that came forward to lend a helping hand and how the private sector was organized through the so-called Vaccine Command to facilitate the arrival of vaccines to the country in the shortest term.

Likewise, a tribute to the doctors and nurses whose stories of struggle made it possible to lessen the impact of the disease.

Marco Loret de Mola will also have a voice in this supplement, the man who recorded day by day the figures of horror and also those of hope, when the curve was declining.

Data

On December 12, 2019, the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Wuhan, China.

Three months later, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic status.

Thirteen days after the first case was reported in Peru, the first death from COVID-19 was recorded, a 72-year-old man with comorbidities.

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