TOPSHOT - Workers stand next to coffins of COVID-19 victims at El Angel cemetery, in Lima on May 21, 2020. - Peru has become the second Latin American country after Brazil to reach 100,000 coronavirus cases, according to health ministry figures out Wednesday. (Photo by ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP) (Photo by ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP via Getty Images)
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Peru rose to at least 123,979 on Monday — a jump of 4,020 from the previous day, according to the country’s health ministry.
The ministry also reported 173 new deaths since the previous day, raising the national death toll to 3,629.
Peru has the second-highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Latin America, behind Brazil.
