China News Service, July 8 (Xinhua) reported that the Peruvian Ministry of Health released data on the 7th. In the past day, Peru has added 3,575 new cases of new crowns, with a total of 309,278 cases diagnosed and 10,952 deaths. The country's health minister said that Peru's current general epidemic trend has not changed.
The report said that Peru’s Minister of Health Zamora said, “The first and second stages of economic recovery have been completed, but the overall trend of the new crown epidemic has not changed. Now the epidemic in the entire country is slowly and continuously declining. The rate is falling."
It is also reported that the governor of Peru, Móngua, Zenón Cuevas Pare, received a new coronavirus test in the city of Tacna on the 6th and the test result was positive. He is currently in isolation at home and his condition is stable.
At the same time, Luis Hidalgo Okimura, the governor of Madre de Dios Region, also said on social media that his new coronavirus test was positive and did not show related symptoms, and has now begun home isolation. He is said to be the third governor-level official infected since the outbreak in Peru.
The Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru, Edgar Vazquez, said in an interview recently that the new crown epidemic has plunged the Peruvian tourism industry, of which inbound tourism is the hardest hit. It is expected that by the end of 2020, the number of international tourists received by Peru will fall back to the level of 2004.