Coronavirus Hits Peru Hard Despite Strict Lockdown

LIMA, Peru—This region carried out one particular of the Western Hemisphere’s strictest lockdowns to sluggish the coronavirus pandemic, but the steps weren’t clear in April as throngs of ladies jostled about Katherine Rivera’s compact hen stall.

They were all buying food on one particular of the several times allowed soon after President Martín Vizcarra, in an exertion to maintain people generally indoors, ordered that ladies and males could leave their residences only on alternating times of the 7 days, with no one particular leaving Sundays. The end result was big crowds of ladies,…