Peru: 13 people from the same family died from coronavirus

Helen Yáñez is living a nightmare: thirteen of her relatives have died from the coronavirus and her father, also infected, is now struggling to survive without finding a place in a local hospital. The dramatic case occurs in the city of Pisco, Peru, one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in the world.

The young woman does not know how the chain of infections began. But, little by little, all the members were infected. And, within months, 13 of them died from serious lung infections and lack of beds at local health centers. The last member of the family to lose their life was her 74-year-old grandfather.

From the San Juan de Dios hospital, Yáñez made a desperate appeal to politicians: “What about the authorities? With all these candidates who have run million dollar campaigns and cannot come here, where are all these voters who have been asked to vote. I don’t want to lose my father “, He said.

“My father could only have a normal room. You have a reserved diagnosis and do not respond to treatment. In my aunt’s case, she was drowning and I had to make a big deal so they could transfer her to an intensive care bed. “, she denounced, desperate.

With the frightening rhythm of one dies every 5 minutesPeruvians are facing the worst time of the pandemic with an apparent easing of prevention measures, despite the fact that the Brazilian variant of covid-19 – the Manaus strain – is accelerating infections in this prolonged second wave.

Although Peru has tried almost every measure applied to mitigate the pandemic – quarantine, border closures, curfews, compulsory use of masks and face masks, among others -, nothing seems to stop the advance of the virus, which officially killed more than 58,000 people in one year.

So far in April, the health ministry has reported the deaths of nearly 6,000 people, surpassing the deaths last February, which stood at 5,500.

Peru recorded the highest number of deaths from the pandemic on Sunday: 433. It is, moreover, the country which today suffers the most excess deaths in relation to its population throughout the world. The cities of Lima and Callao are the most affected.

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