BEIJING China’s southern manufacturing hub of Guangzhou has imposed lockdowns on two neighborhoods after an additional 11 cases of COVID-19 were detected in the city.
Peruvian Health Minister Oscar Ugarte announced revisions to how causes of death are registered. The country's official pandemic death toll has now jumped from almost 70,000 to just over 180,000 fatalities. Per capita, Peru now has the world's worst death rate.
Peru has more than doubled its official death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic following a government review of the figures, leaving the country with the highest coronavirus-related death rate per capita in the world.