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Government officials in Peru announced on Monday the country's official COVID-19 death toll had been far lower than the real number. Instead of 69,342
Peruvian Officials More Than Double COVID Death Toll, Saying They Undercounted
By Jaclyn Diaz
June 1, 2021
Government officials in Peru announced on Monday the country’s official COVID-19 death toll had been far lower than the real number. Instead of 69,342 Peruvians perishing from COVID-19 as of May 22, as the Peruvian government previously reported, more than 180,000 actually have died from the virus.
Officials blamed the undercounting on “a lack of testing that made it difficult to confirm whether a person had died due to the virus or some other cause,”
Reuters reports. The new figure means Peru has the highest per-capita death toll in the world.
A worker digs a grave in the San Juan Bautista cemetery in Iquitos, Peru, amid the coronavirus pandemic. On May 31, 2021, Peru announced a sharp increase in its COVID-19 death toll, saying there have been more than 180,000 fatalities since the pandemic hit the country early last year. Rodrigo Abd/AP
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A worker digs a grave in the San Juan Bautista cemetery in Iquitos, Peru, amid the coronavirus pandemic. On May 31, 2021, Peru announced a sharp increase in its COVID-19 death toll, saying there have been more than 180,000 fatalities since the pandemic hit the country early last year.
Government officials in Peru announced on Monday the country's official COVID-19 death toll had been far lower than the real number. Instead of 69,342