Collected Item: “Virus Exposes Weak Links in Peru’s Success Story”
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Virus Exposes Weak Links in Peru’s Success Story
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News article
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Peru has become a hotspot for coronavirus, despite an intense lockdown and track & trace technology. The article highlights that COVID-19 cases have overwhelmed Peru's hospitals and healthcare capacity, what's understated is that Peru did take the right measures, they did react correctly and with national leadership. The problem is that they could not sustain an extended quarantine period. If it had been a true quarantine and the borders were closed, things might look differently, but the U.S. and Peru took weeks to negotiate repatriation of citizens, and groups of migrants began returning to the countryside or leaving Peru for their homeland, such as in the case of Venezuelans. With all of that movement, it is impossible to control the spread of an infectious disease.
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Peru, migration, Venezuelans, cemetery, stigma, economic crisis
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https://web.archive.org/web/20200618215313/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/world/americas/coronavirus-peru-inequality-corruption.html
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Mitra Taj and Anatoly Kurmanaev
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2020-06-12