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Peruvians were voting in a presidential runoff poll on Sunday under the shadow of one of the world's deadliest COVID-19 outbreaks and as calls grow louder for medical support to counter still-high infection rates. ....
Peru has announced that the country s real number of coronavirus deaths is more than double what was previously thought. according to the new official figures a hundred and 80 thousand people have died of covid in peru. that s now one of the world s highest death rates per head of population. the previous official death toll was 69 thousand. officials revised the death toll by a special task force commissioned by the government.(read on patrick wieghardt is one of the experts who was part of that government task force. thank government task force. you so much for your time. thank you so much for your time. in simple terms can you explain how this huge discrepancy has come about? thank you for the invitation. in may of last year data ....
Here s one of the members of the task force behind the revised death toll, patrick wieghardt the death toll is probably the most important indicator of the pandemic. it tells you how the pandemic has put progressing, you, it is the best indicator. so it is really a very important figure to know how to plan in the future, to plan in the present and how to go forward. the problem is that peru doesn t test that much. countries like the uk or the united states, they actually do a lot of molecular tests, pcr tests, which really prove that there is, that people are infected. the problem in peru is that a lot of antibody tests, a lot of other tests have been quick test have been used and sensitivity has very low. luis fajardo is from bbc monitoring ....
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