In this sense, the top official commented that —based on international scientific projections— the amount of deaths in the country would have reached between 83,000 and 400,000 during the quarantine, "in case that nothing had been done" to counter the pandemic.
"It is a projection. If you do another analysis or use another mathematical model, it (the number of deaths) may not be 50,000, but 60,000, or 80,000 or perhaps 100,000 (…)," he expressed.
In this sense, the statesman remarked that —if nothing to counter the coronavirus had been done— the amount of pandemic-related deaths "would be much higher, and that has been avoided due to the efforts of all of you Peruvians to contain the spread of contagion."