The new coronavirus pandemic has turned an estimated 98,000 children into orphans in Peru, the country’s government, which has the highest coronavirus mortality rate in the world in terms of population, announced on Thursday.
“Unfortunately, our country (…) counts about 98,000 children who lost their father, mother or guardian during the pandemic,” said Women’s Minister Ana Durant, citing medical data. inspection The Lancet.
“We have the sad world record, the country with the highest number of children who have lost their father or mother,” he insisted.
The ministry is currently giving a pension of 200 (approximately 45 euros) to more than 18,000 families, but the number of beneficiaries needs to increase, the minister estimated. The government plans to provide such pensions to a total of 83,664 children and adolescents left without parents due to the pandemic, in addition to psychological and educational support.
The country of 33 million inhabitants has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate in the world, with 6,122 deaths per million inhabitants, according to official French estimates based on official data.
In the Andean country, which is now facing a third wave of pandemics, more than 2 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been confirmed and more than 202,900 people have succumbed to COVID-19 complications.
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