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16:33 | Lima, Apr. 30.
Prime Minister Violeta Bermudez on Friday reported that the first batch of vaccines against COVID-19, which is intended for the inoculation of senior citizens, has already been delivered throughout Peruvian territory. The first batch of vaccines for older adults has already reached out to all regions, she wrote on Twitter. Get vaccinated with optimism and hope, without skipping the line, she expressed.
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13:01 | Lima, Apr. 24.
In this sense, the high-ranking official indicated that protection kits will be delivered to vulnerable people, who live in poverty and extreme poverty areas. Declaring them (face masks) a public good means that the State will invest public resources aimed at acquiring and distributing them for free, she expressed.
Likewise, the Cabinet chief stated that this regulation will promote the purchase and delivery of face masks in the private sector and civil organizations.
Furthermore, Bermudez pointed out that kits will be delivered at vaccination centers, in coordination with the corresponding municipalities.
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18:03 | Lima, Apr. 14. Prime Minister Violeta Bermudez on Wednesday announced that a working group will be created, composed of well-known professionals, who will be in charge of providing technical criteria to update the number of COVID-19-related deaths in Peru.
Within this framework, the high-ranking official stated that one of the critical issues is the death toll, which is why the Government in a spirit of transparency decided to establish this working group. We have made the decision to convene and create a technical working group, of a temporary nature and attached to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, with the aim of proposing and relying on technical criteria to update the numbers of deaths from COVID-19, she indicated.
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10:25 | Lima, Apr. 9. Prime Minister Violeta Bermudez has announced that the Peruvian Government agreed to extend until April 18 the validity of the current measures established in the regions at high, very high, and extreme risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In order not to affect the electoral process, we will not make amendments to the classification of provinces, and each one of them will maintain their current alert level for one more week, she noted.
The high-ranking official indicated that from now on the classification of the sanitary risk level of different provinces will be carried out every three weeks, which will allow greater predictability regarding the measures that have been adopted within the framework of the fight against the pandemic.
Moreover, the Prime Minister highlighted that in four months the Transition and Emergency Government increased the number of ICU beds and oxygen plants.
In this sense, the government official recalled that when President Sagasti s administration took office in November 2020, its members had found less than 1,500 ICU beds. Nonetheless, we have 1,000 more ICU beds, she stressed.
The same happened with oxygen plants, the dignitary continued. When this pandemic began, there were only nine oxygen plants. In November, the number rose to 63, and there are 169 today (…), she concluded.
?? Ahora | La presidenta del Consejo de Ministros, junto con la presidenta de @EsSaludPeru, supervisan el funcionamiento del Centro Nacional de Telemedicina, que atiende más de 100 mil consultas médicas al mes de manera virtual. pic.twitter.com/I59i8LqBjW Consejo de Ministros (@pcmperu) April 9, 2021