COVID-19: Lima reports no deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours

Just over two years have passed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects continue to knock on the doors of Peruvian families on a daily basis. While trying to close the vaccination gap and being in the last phase of the third wave of infections, the Ministry of Health has been recording data encouraging about the behavior of the coronavirus in our country. Through his Twitter account, engineer Juan Carbajal confirmed that Minsa has not reported deaths from COVID-19 in the city of Lima; however, he left an important warning about it.

“It should be noted that this is a partial report, let's wait in the coming days for the update via Open Data to confirm what was reported in Lima,” the publication reads. It should be remembered that the number of deaths mentioned in the Situational Room only corresponds to the last 24 hours, while the updated information in the open data is a more reliable reflection of the behavior of the virus according to the day it is selected.

“Open data is a platform in which each entity of the Ministry of Health notifies and confirms the death certificate to determine if the death was due to Covid or another cause. Finally, the information is recorded in the National Computer System of Deaths (Sinadef),” Carbajal said in conversation with Infobae. In other words, once the Situational Chamber halts the registration of deaths for the past 24 hours, Sinadef continues to receive information about the deaths, which are ordered to determine the total number of citizens who lost their lives on a given day.

“It is not that Minsa does its reports in the spirit of hiding figures because they do handle this information. What is lacking is greater dissemination so that people know the real situation that the country is experiencing. The numbers presented seem light, but to say that 104 have been killed in a single day does raise alarms”. The specialist emphasized that if the Ministry of Health has portals where this data is recorded, it would only be left for the population to have greater access to them.

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The most recent report from the Ministry of Health states that 262 new infections were registered and 10 compatriots lost their lives due to the coronavirus. During that time period, 31,022 people were tested nationwide.

The number of people hospitalized rises to 1,251 because of the virus that triggered this pandemic. Of these, 417 are hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) being treated with mechanical ventilation. More than 3 million people have been in home isolation since the start of the pandemic, according to Minsa.

Information shared through Susalud shows that over the past two days there has been a slight increase in hospitalized nationwide. While during the first three days of April the figure fell from 1,259 to 1,229 and then to 1.197, the two days after that figure rose to 1,205 and 1,251, approaching the figure recorded at the beginning of the month.

Since March 2020, more than 25 million Peruvians have been tested for coronavirus, of which 3,549,511 were confirmed cases. 212,396 is the total number, so far, of compatriots who have died due to COVID-19 since the virus was first registered on national territory.

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