World’s Strictest Covid Lockdown Produces Record Death Rate

Peru imposed a first Covid curfew from March 16 to June 2020. A second lockdown followed in January this year.

The country locked down earlier than almost all other countries – and before any other in Latin America.

The lockdown was one of the most stringent in the world, according to Spiked-Online.com (June 2). People were only allowed to leave their homes to buy essential goods. The government even used the army to enforce the rules.

However, Peru (population: 32 million) experienced roughly 180,000 Covid deaths. This is by far the highest Covid death rate in the world – over 560 per 100,000 people.

Hungary, the next highest, has a death rate of just over 300 per 100,000. The death rate in Sweden which never enacted a lockdown is 140.

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