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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)
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
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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