Peru, hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, has crossed the threshold of two million cases of Covid-19 contamination, a threshold that has gone almost unnoticed in the Andean country which is awaiting the results of the presidential election.
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Some 2,001,059 people have been infected with Covid and 188,443 have died, according to the latest figures from the Peruvian Ministry of Health on Sunday.
In addition, some 10,711 people were hospitalized including 2,548 in intensive care, according to the same source.
Peru is the country in the world which deplores the highest number of deaths in relation to its population (33 million inhabitants).
The Peruvian authorities had reassessed on May 31 the number of people who died from Covid-19 in the country, increasing it from 69,000 to 180,000, on the recommendations of a technical council set up in April and composed of Peruvian experts and World Health Organization (WHO).
Peruvians voted in the second round of an extremely tight presidential election last Sunday between populist right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and radical left leader Pedro Castillo, but the final results are not yet known.
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