, Health Minister Pilar Mazzetti affirmed on Friday.
"We cannot be triumphalist (...). In epidemiology, the figures can change at any time," she stressed at Air Group No. 8 before leaving for the southern city of Tacna.
"In the last four or five weeks, we have evaluated about 120,000 people. We are trying to reactivate the
primary care level, it is not easy. Thanks to the support of the
Social Health Insurance System (EsSalud) and the Tayta strategy, we are assisting not only the elderly but all those who need help," she expressed.
Dr. Mazzetti also took cautiously the ranking which indicates that Peru is the country with the highest number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
Afterwards, Minister Mazzetti travelled to Tacna to inspect the fight against COVID-19 in that region, where Minsa, the regional government and municipalities deploy
primary care for early detection and medical support to those infected by the disease. It also aims to expand hospital capacity.
The Minsa head said that there is a debt with Tacna because —in the first months of the pandemic— the region provided mechanical ventilators to other areas of the country in crisis, and now the country has started to return them.