COVID-19 pandemic in Peru
| COVID-19 pandemic in Peru | |
|---|---|
 Departments with confirmed coronavirus cases Confirmed 1–9 Confirmed 10–59 Confirmed 60–99 Confirmed 100–299 | |
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Peru |
| First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China via Czech Republic, France and Spain |
| Index case | Lima |
| Arrival date | 6 March 2020 (4 years, 9 months, 1 week and 1 day) |
| Confirmed cases | 939,931 |
| Recovered | 730,595 |
Deaths | 35,317 |
| Government website | |
| https://covid19.minsa.gob.pe/sala_situacional.asp | |
The COVID-19 pandemic was reported to have spread to Peru on 6 March 2020 when a 25-year-old man who had travelled to Spain, France and the Czech Republic tested positive.[1]
On 15 March 2020, President Martín Vizcarra announced a country-wide lockdown, closing borders, slowing down domestic travel, and ending nonessential business, except health facilities, food vendors, pharmacies, and financial institutions.
Peru, with a total population of 32 million,[2] had a total of 500 intensive care unit (ICU) beds available as of April 2020,[3] and was working on expanding its nation-wide ventilator system from 40 to 540 machines within the coming months.
The engineering and production was supplied by the Peruvian military.[4]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Peru records first confirmed case of coronavirus, President Vizcarra says". Reuters. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020 – via www.reuters.com.
- ↑ "Peru Population (2020) – Worldometer". www.worldometers.info. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
- ↑ PERÚ, Empresa Peruana de Servicios Editoriales S. A. EDITORA. "Peru President implements further restrictions on circulation to curb COVID-19". andina.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-05.
- ↑ World, Republic. "Peru manufactures respirators for virus patients". Republic World. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
