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Peru probes whether 27,253 coronavirus deaths uncounted

by Associated Press
| July 31, 2020 9:27 AM

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian authorities and the Pan American Health Organization are investigating whether the country failed to count 27,253 deaths caused by the novel coronavirus, a figure that could more than double the country's official death toll from COVID-19.

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