{"id":115371,"date":"2021-02-27T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T07:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115371"},"modified":"2021-02-27T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T07:25:14","slug":"covid-19-first-cargo-of-medical-oxygen-arrives-in-peru-from-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115371","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: First cargo of medical oxygen arrives in Peru from Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bc85400454432f1f9b1af77127c530d8dda62aed.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bc85400454432f1f9b1af77127c530d8dda62aed-696x391.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA, Feb 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A first shipment of medical oxygen sent by<br>Chile has arrived in Peru, which will help relieve a shortage for Covid-19<br>patients, President Francisco Sagasti said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost 200 people a day have died from Covid-19 in Peru in February, four<br>times more than in December, and the shortage of oxygen has hampered<br>treatment for thousands of patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe first 40 tonnes of oxygen imported from Chile are already in our<br>territory,\u201d the president wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the willingness of our sister country to the south to<br>support us,\u201d he said, adding it would be a weekly shipment during the<br>emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shortage had forced people to line up for up to four days for an<br>oxygen refill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peru currently has nearly 100,000 people with Covid-19, according to<br>official figures, of whom 15,000 are hospitalized, overwhelming the health<br>services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 33 million people, Peru has about 1.3 million confirmed coronavirus<br>cases and more than 45,000 deaths, according to official data. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, Feb 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A first shipment of medical oxygen sent byChile has arrived in Peru, which will help relieve a shortage for Covid-19patients, President Francisco Sagasti said. Almost 200 people a day have died from Covid-19 in Peru in February, fourtimes more than in December, and the shortage of oxygen has hamperedtreatment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}