Peruvian Officials More Than Double COVID Death Toll, Saying They Undercounted
"Glaring gaps" in access to COVID-19 vaccines are partially to blame for increasing infection rates in Peru, Argentina, Brazil and many other Latin American and Caribbean countries .
Government officials in Peru announced on Monday the country's official COVID-19 death toll had been far lower than the real number. Instead of 69,342 Peruvians perishing from COVID-19 as of May 22, as the Peruvian government previously reported, more than 180,000 actually have died from the virus.
Officials blamed the undercounting on "a lack of testing that made it difficult to confirm whether a. The new figure means Peru has the highest per-capita death toll in the world.
