Peru, with world's deadliest COVID-19 outbreak, readies to start vaccine tests

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Peru will start testing coronavirus vaccines from China's Sinopharm and U.S. drugmaker Johnson & Johnson in September, researchers said, which ...

FILE PHOTO: A Venezuelan migrant receives a vaccination at the Binational Border Service Center of Peru, in Tumbes, Peru June 14, 2019. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo/File PhotoLIMA: Peru will start testing coronavirus vaccines from China's Sinopharm and US drugmaker Johnson & Johnson in September, researchers said, which should help the country gain faster access to inoculations once the vaccines are approved.

Peru has recorded around 622,000 cases of the coronavirus, the fifth highest case load in the world, and 28,277 deaths. It now has the world's deadliest fatality rate per capita, with 86.67 deaths per 100,000 people, a Reuters tally shows, just ahead of Belgium. "We are contacting other companies, laboratories, from Britain and other countries that are going to help us immunize at least 70 per cent of the local population," Martos said.

 

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