The health authorities of Peru have announced this Monday that the use of a mask in open spaces will once once more be mandatory due to a new outbreak of infections, which is estimated to be the fourth wave of infections to hit the country.
“We are already in the fourth wave. It is already the obligatory use of the mask in any environment, whether closed or open”, said the Minister of Health, Jorge López, who has stressed that the measure must be complied with by “absolutely all” citizens, according to the station. RPP.
The minister explained that in the ‘road map’ for the return to normality it was contemplated that if a certain number of infections was exceeded, “automatically” all the freedoms and relaxation of measures that had been gone giving, “they were trimmed.”
However, López has recognized that the situation is not comparable to that of other outbreaks because today hospitalizations are controlled and intensive care units are not saturated, points out the newspaper ‘La República’.
This is why the person in charge of Health functions has stressed the importance of vaccination, since “it is the only way to avoid being hospitalized or needing an ICU bed.” “We must encourage people to go (to be vaccinated)take your minor children”, he said.
The Peruvian Ministry of Health has detailed that in the last week the infections in the provinces of Lima and Callao have increased from 881 to 1,256 new infections.
Likewise, Peru is also experiencing an increase in infections at the regional level, with Lima and Arequipa as the ones with the highest number of infections, exceeding 13,400 new positives between them.
Las Peruvian health authorities have confirmed more than 3.64 million infections since the start of the pandemic, with the first months of 2022 as the most critical period, when nearly 60,000 positives were registered daily.
In addition, at least 214,000 people have lost their lives to the disease, while regarding 84 percent of the population – some 27.4 million people – have at least two doses of the vaccine.
