Peru revises official COVID-19 death toll, making it world's worst per capita
Peru's government says the death count has been updated in part because of a lack of testing had previously made it difficult to confirm whether a person had died due to the virus or some other cause.
1 June 2021
Peru has almost tripled its official COVID-19 death toll to 180,764, following a government review, making it the country with the worst death rate per capita, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Peru has been among the hardest-hit Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Its hospitals have been overcrowded and demand for oxygen has been outstripping availability.