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Peru registers more COVID infections in at least 24 provinces. Photo: Archyde.com
Peru, which has one of the worst mortality rates in the world regarding the number of its inhabitants, raised the level of health alert in several cities of the country and tightened some restrictions due to the third wave of the pandemic triggered by the Omicron variant.
The Health Minister, Hernando Cevallos, said that some 24 provinces, including Lima, went from moderate to high level after increasing at least 25% on average in daily infections in the last week compared to the previous one.
Between the restrictions the curfew was raised to five from two hours, in addition to reducing the capacity in the public capacity in the shopping centers, banks and restaurants, he said.
We are at a level of contagion that has been occurring in an accelerated and rapid way, “Cevallos said at a press conference. The minister said that in Lima, with almost a third of the country’s population,” the omicron is the predominant one. ” with half of the infections caused by the new variant.
However, Cevallos said that despite the jump in infections, the number of deaths from the disease has grown moderately at the national level, and that most of them were people who had not been vaccinated.
Peru has vaccinated with two doses against covid to just over 80% of its target population. As of Tuesday, coronavirus cases totaled 2.3 million in the country and the deaths totaled 202,867, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
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