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Virus Exposes Weak Links in Peru’s Success Story

Title (Dublin Core)

Virus Exposes Weak Links in Peru’s Success Story

Description (Dublin Core)

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.
Peru, migration, Venezuelans, cemetery, stigma, economic crisis

Date (Dublin Core)

June 12, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Mitra Taj
Anatoly Kurmanaev

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Katy Kole de Peralta

Type (Dublin Core)

News article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Publisher (Dublin Core)

New York Times

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Economy
English Government Federal
English Health & Wellness
English Home & Family Life
English News coverage
English Politics
English Social Class

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Peru
migration
Venezuelans
cemetery
stigma
economic crisis
transmission
spread
travel
repatriation

Collection (Dublin Core)

Peru
Latino(a/x) Voices

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

06/18/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/02/2020
03/20/2021
05/24/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/12/2020

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This item was submitted on June 18, 2020 by Katy Kole de Peralta using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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