Alarm in Peru: COVID-19 deaths total more than 180,000, almost triple of what had been reported

Peru updated this Monday at almost tripling their death toll from COVID-19. In total, they total 180 764. The number that had been reported since the start of the pandemic was 69.342, as recorded during the last registration of the site of the John Hopkins University.

The announcement was made at the Presidential Palace during the presentation of the results of a task force commissioned by scientists to analyze and update the death toll. The ravages of the coronavirus have increased the poor by three million and poverty has skyrocketed to figures of ten years ago.

The new death toll from COVID-19 runs from early March 2020 to May 22. In total, according to John Hopkins, the country reports more than 1,955,000 infections.

Latin America, among the hardest hit

Last Friday the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) He reported that Latin America has passed one million deaths because of the coronavirus. The agency released a report in which it pointed out that the subcontinent has already recorded 1,023,617 died from the virus originating in China at the end of 2019. However, this figure could have been exceeded months ago, given the revelation made on Monday by Peru, whose situation is similar to that of the other countries of the region.

The Latin countries which led the angle according to this count of the PAHO in terms of deaths Brazil (454.429), Mexico (222,232), Colombia (86.180), Argentina (75,588) and Chile (28809). With the figures released today by the Peruvian government, the third place should be this beaten nation. Meanwhile, the two North American countries of Anglo-Saxon origin, United States Yes Canada, respectively accumulate 586,890 and 25,361 deaths.

Latin America and the Caribbean region leads the sad world ranking by the number of daily deaths of coronaviruses per million inhabitants. Of the top ten countries on the list, nine are from this part of the world, according to varying numbers on the web Our world in data.

In general terms, Latin America had 32,566,926 coronavirus cases and 1,023,617 deaths on Friday, according to PAHO. The data is not a surprise, since last Saturday the director of PAHO, Carissa Etienne, announced that in the region “The lives of over a million people have been cut short by COVID-19”, For what “This is a tragic step for everyone in the region.”

Etienne regretted that “the pandemic is hitting Latin America hard,” an area he described as “the epicenter of covid-19 suffering”, for which he said “it should also be an epicenter vaccination “.

However, the reality is very different since the official warned that of the more than 153.5 million people who have been vaccinated in America, only 21.6% are in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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