Members of a cell doctor take notes after reviewing a Covid-19 patient in Cusco, Peru, on October 13.
Members of a cell doctor take notes after reviewing a Covid-19 patient in Cusco, Peru, on October 13.
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Peru, which has the highest number of deaths per capita by the new coronavirus, set a dark record by placing the first country to record more than one hundred deaths consisting of one hundred thousand people.
The South American country of 33 million others reported that 33,577 showed deaths by Covid-19 on Thursday. With 105 deaths consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, according to knowledge compiled through Johns Hopkins University, Peru leads the world ranking in mortality measurement ahead of Belgium with 90, followed by Bolivia and Brazil with rates of 74 and 73 respectively.
However, after infecting about a third of Peru’s population, according to government estimates, the virus epidemic has declined in recent weeks. Daily deaths during the five days averaged 68 on Thursday, up from 115 a. m. the previous month and more than two hundred for a long time. August, according to knowledge compiled through Bloomberg. The number of patients hospitalized by Covid-19 has been reduced by more than half since mid-August.
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This week, the Ministry of Health discontinued the use of 3 medicines to treat patients hospitalized with Covid-19 after they discovered in some cases that they increased the death threat by 84%.
Peru has restarted foreign flights to some South American countries this month and plans to reopen its iconic archaeological Machu Picchu and other tourist attractions next month.
Unofficial estimates put the death toll in Peru at more than double the official figure: confirmed and suspected deaths from the virus are around 77,400, epidemiologist César Cárcamo, a pandemic adviser, told the newspaper La República on 9 October.
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