Peru once again No. 1 country in Covid mortality 3 minutes read
Lima, May 31 (EFE).- Peru on Monday once again became the country with the No. 1 Covid-19 mortality after the government revised the death toll for the pandemic so far, adding more than 111,000 to the list to create a total almost three times the earlier statistic regarding the impact of the coronavirus since it hit the Andean nation more than a year ago.
With the aim of clarifying the real toll from the pandemic, the Peruvian government in April established a technical working group which on Monday presented its final report in which it reported that the number of dead from Covid-19 in the country totaled 180,764 between March 2020 and May 22, 2021.
Authorities revised Peru s official death toll from 69,342 to 180,764 after experts warned the true number of deaths was being undercounted in official statistics on Monday.
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.