Peru has significantly revised its official record of deaths caused by Covid-19, increasing the number almost threefold. The change was made after a review proposed new criteria for linking deaths to the virus.
The Latin American nation of 33 million has made a painful reckoning with the damage done by the pandemic. Its government revealed it has updated the Covid-19 death toll to 180,764 – a sharp rise from the previous figure of 69,342. The news was announced by Prime Minister Violeta Bermudez during a media conference on Monday.
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