China News Service, February 11. According to Peru's "Gazette", on the 10th local time, Dante Ceso, the head of the Intelligence and Data Analysis Department (UIAD) of the Peruvian Social Medical Insurance Agency (EsSalud), confirmed that the number of new cases in Peru has increased. The number of confirmed cases has been on a downward trend for the third week in a row.
The third wave of the epidemic peaked in the third week of January, when Peru reported more than 300,000 new cases, before beginning to decline.
Ceso explained that the peak of the third wave was significantly higher than that of the first and second waves, which indicates that the infection in this wave is very serious.
Seso also said that based on these figures, the number of confirmed new crown infections in January alone reached nearly 1 million, which was caused by the rapid spread of the new coronavirus Omicron variant.
Ceso noted that Peru reported 239,000 new cases in the fourth week of January 2022, compared with 114,000 reported in the first week of February, a number that is expected to drop to 50,000, or half of the cases reported the previous week. .