From Covid Disaster to Steep Case Drop, Pandemic Eases in Peru
- Infections in Lima and most big cities have rapidly declined
- Top virus adviser expects few new daily Lima cases by August
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Despite one of the world’s highest Covid death rates -- or perhaps because of it -- Peru is seeing a sudden steep drop in new cases, leading a top government epidemiologist to predict a massive improvement in the coming weeks.
The specialist, Cesar Munayco, said by phone that the change seems attributable to two things: many of the country’s most vulnerable have already succumbed, and the rest of the population is so terrified that they’re taking precautions they had initially avoided.