The rate of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in Peruvian regions
, the Social Health Insurance System (EsSalud) reported on Tuesday.
Within this framework, EsSalud's Intelligence and Data Analysis Unit Chief Dante Cersso specified that 30,000 new cases were reported in the third week of September.
"This is the case of Loreto, Moquegua, Huanuco, and Pasco.
For example, contagions in Loreto have decreased considerably. Of the 500 cases reported two weeks ago, it now records 300 cases per week. Likewise, Moquegua went from 1,400 cases per week to 900," Cersso said in remarks to RPP radio and TV station.
This same trend is registered in cities with large populations such as Lima, Lambayeque, and Piura.
Yet Cersso warned that the number of infections in the south of the country is still high, especially in the regions: Madre de Dios, Puno, Cusco, and Arequipa; in addition to Amazonas in the north.