Via La Razón: COVID-19: Peru takes fifth place in world deaths. Excerpt from the Google translation:
The Executive Power yesterday presented the official number of deaths from covid-19 at the national level. According to the report prepared by the technical working group in charge of this work, the figure rises to a total of 180,764 deaths as of May 22, which places Peru in fifth place globally in countries with the most deaths registered from this disease .In this way, our country is placed only behind the United States, with 594,468 deaths; Brazil, with 461,931; India, with 329,100, and Mexico, with 223,507, taking into account the data provided by Johns Hopkins University.In addition, it becomes the second country most affected by the pandemic in South America, only surpassed by Brazil and now ahead of Argentina and Colombia, which reported 77,456 and 88,282 deaths, respectively, before this update.Until this Sunday, the Ministry of Health (Minsa) only reported 69,342 deaths from COVID-19 in our country, although it was known -thanks to different journalistic investigations- that these figures were always very far from what the National Death Information System recorded (Sinadef), compared to the deaths registered before the start of the pandemic.
