RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Peru has reached this Saturday the two million vaccines against covid-19 applied among its population. During a day dedicated to the immunization of adults over 70 years of age in Lima. Today, we surpassed the two million vaccines applied, and I am happy that it has taken place in this vaccination center in El Agustino and the person of Mrs. Olinda, declared the Peruvian Minister of Health, Oscar Ugarte, after the application of the dose to an 84-year-old woman.
The Health Minister visited the vaccination center installed by the ministry at the Mariscal . . .
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Lima, Peru – While the world watches in horror as India’s coronavirus case count explodes, another intense outbreak is unfolding – albeit on a much smaller scale – in Peru, which sits atop the global per capita mortality rankings.
The Andean nation has registered more than 4,000 excess dead per million residents since the start of the pandemic, or more than 166,815 deaths, the Financial Times reported, a 123 percent rise compared with the historical average.
Excess deaths are viewed as more accurate than the official Peruvian health ministry figure of 62,126 confirmed deaths linked to the coronavirus.
“Almost all Peruvians know someone who has died from COVID,” said Cesar Carcamo, an epidemiologist at Cayetano Heredia University, Peru’s leading medical school.
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After 21 days, this second dose is given to doctors, nurses, nursing technicians, and the rest of the healthcare team who provide services in Intensive Care Units (ICU) and COVID-19 Emergency Rooms.
This second dose is being administered to health personnel of the National Maternal-Perinatal Institute, the National Children s Health Institute (INSN), and Arzobispo Loayza Hospital.
The administration of the second dose began on March 2 with the immunization of health personnel from Hipolito Unanue, Dos de Mayo, and the INSN hospitals.
At Hipolito Unanue Hospital in El Agustino district, approximately 400 people per day are projected to be inoculated to meet the goal of 3,423 immunized workers including doctors, nurses, and technicians.