With 86 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, Peru this week displaced Belgium in the global ranking of mortality from coronavirus, after the European country corrected its death toll downward.
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A precarious health system, low investment in health, poverty, high labor informality and overcrowding in homes are, among others, the causes that contributed to Peru having the highest death rate from coronavirus in the world, experts say.
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The Peruvian government indicated that the main reason for occupying the first place is that it discloses the figures with “transparency” and that it has a death registration system of “the best” in Latin America.
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Peru is first “because we are coming out of the underestimation of deaths” but there are also other reasons, Farid Matuk, a statistical expert who advised the government at the beginning of the pandemic, told AFP.
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With more than 621,000 confirmed cases and 28,277 deaths, Peru is third in Latin America in deaths from the pandemic after Brazil and Mexico, and second in infections behind the South American giant.
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But in proportion to its population of 33 million, it is now the most mourning country in the world, despite a quarantine of more than 100 days.
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