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Peru confirms its first case of Covid-19 caused by Indian (Delta) coronavirus variant

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Government of Peru confirmed on Wednesday its first case of the Indian variant of the coronavirus, detected in the southern city of Arequipa, the only one where infections are increasing again, unlike in the rest of the country.

The Delta variant, as this mutation of the coronavirus that emerged in India is now denominated, was detected for the first time in Peru in a 78-year-old woman, according to the Minister of Health, Óscar Ugarte, at the press conference following the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers.

This is a non-imported case . . .

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