Peruvian effort to response and fight covid-19: Health emergency

Vásquez R.T.M.; Bazán G.J. · Medicine and Law (2020)

Resumen

Peru’s turn to confront the new virus called Covid-19 was inevitable. President Martín Vizcarra’s administration sought to contain the expansion of the virus just 5 days after the first case of an infected patient. These decisions were accompanied by unprecedented economic measures, which aimed to alleviate the impact the quarantined citizens of Peru. This effort failed to effectively reach the public promptly, despite their good intentions. The government’s strategy addressed three key issues detailed in this article. This is a country where a significant sector of the population is in poverty and extreme poverty, to whom the income strategy was not actively implemented using the transferred budget.