Peru has become the world leader in the death rate from the coronavirus disease COVID-19 per capita after the South American country adjusted statistics, resulting in the number of deaths almost tripled. The Voice of America writes about this with reference to data from Johns Hopkins University.
An earlier record figure was in Hungary – about 300 deaths from covid per 100,000 people. After updating the data for Peru, this country became the leader – more than 500 per 100,000.
The Peruvian authorities attributed the strong pre- and post-adjustment discrepancy to insufficient testing, making it difficult to determine whether a virus or some other disease was the cause of death.
People from tribes far from the centers of civilization are forced to travel for many kilometers for the vaccine:
As of June 1, 2021, almost 2 million cases of the disease were recorded in Peru, about 70,000 patients died. The main variant of the coronavirus in the country is the mutan γ-strain (“Brazilian”).
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