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Study: City of Peru has thousands of flood-prone properties

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13 die in Peru disco stampede after police lockdown raid

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FILE - In this May 28, 2020 file photo, Marylin Bucana throws flowers on the coffin of her father Mario Bucana, a TV news cameraman who died of COVID-19, during his burial in Lima, Peru. Dozens of journalists have died from COVID-19 in Peru since the pandemic began, in the highest reported death toll of media workers from the new coronavirus in any Latin American country, according to journalists’ groups that are monitoring available data. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Pandemic’s toll among journalists in Peru is especially high

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Circus clown Santos Chiroque, whose performance name is &quot;Piojito,&quot; or Little Tick, looks into a mirror as he demonstrates how he puts on his clown makeup, using just lipstick, outside his home on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. Chiroque's family used to run their own small circus, but since March when the lockdown to curb COVID-19 closed down their business, and the requirement for people over 60 to self-quarantine kept the 74-year-old at home, they started selling circus food like caramelized apples to survive. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

AP PHOTOS: Clowns suffer, adapt in Peru due to the pandemic

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Maria Alvarez, 24, holds her newborn baby girl, standing near the wooden box that contain the cremated remains of her husband who died from the new coronavirus in June, after arriving in the home of friend who has offered her a place to stay, in Lima, Peru, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Maria, who had an asymptomatic case of COVID-19, gave birth to her first child the day before at the National Perinatal and Maternal Institute in a special ward for mothers infected with the virus. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AP PHOTOS: COVID makes birth lonely for women in Peru

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

Marcia and Mike Vaughan drive their golf cart though the park, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, at Hidden Creek Campground, just north of Peru, Indiana. (Tim Bath/The Kokomo Tribune via AP)

Indiana campgrounds see demand up amid coronavirus pandemic

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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, Peru's President Martin Vizcarra smiles after the swearing-in ceremony of his new cabinet at the government palace in Lima, Peru. On July 28, 2020, the anniversary of independence, Vizcarra tried in a televised speech to galvanize a country battered, like so many others around the world, by economic calamity and mass death from the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

New crisis in Peru as Congress rejects president’s Cabinet

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

A cemetery worker transports the coffin of a person to the crematorium in the section dedicated to COVID-19 cases at El Angel cemetery in Lima, Peru, Thursday, July 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru probes whether 27,253 coronavirus deaths uncounted

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, Peru's President Martin Vizcarra smiles after the swearing-in ceremony of his new cabinet at the government palace in Lima, Peru. On July 28, 2020, the anniversary of independence, Vizcarra tried in a televised speech to galvanize a country battered, like so many others around the world, by economic calamity and mass death from the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Peru’s leader tries to rally a nation battered by pandemic

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

In this undated photo, courtesy of the family of Yurancy Castillo, shows her in Lima, Peru. Castillo did not want to leave her family, but as inflation in Venezuela soared, rendering her salary as a social worker nearly worthless, the young woman decided her future rested far away, in Peru. In May, she came down with a fever and a week later went to the hospital, where after three weeks in an intensive care unit deep in southern Peru, she died at age 30. (Family of Yurancy Castillo via AP)

Lives Lost: Young Venezuelan dreamed of better life in Peru

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

People wait in line for some businesses to reopen in downtown Lima, Peru, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Major cities including the capital, will begin allowing for public transportation and certain businesses to reopen, but will still restrict the movement of the elderly and young children. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peruvians fill streets as lockdown ends despite infections

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, June 14, 2020 file photo, medical workers attend to a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. For months, experts have warned of a potential nightmare scenario: After overwhelming health systems in some of the world's wealthiest regions, the coronavirus gains a foothold in poor or war-torn countries ill-equipped to contain it and sweeps through the population. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Worst virus fears are realized in poor or war-torn countries

By GERALD IMRAY and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Pedestrians, some wearing protective face masks, walk through a street market in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 25, 2020. With Latin America now the epicenter of the new coronavirus pandemic, but with hundreds of millions relying on these markets for food and livelihoods, the debate now centers on whether and how they can ever operate safely. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Latin America’s critical food markets fuel virus spread

By ALEXIS TRIBOULARD and MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Hundreds of people wait in line outside of at Mega Plaza mall in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Thousands of people crowded in hours-long lines after Peru’s government ignored scientific warnings and opened the country’s 90 shopping malls this week in the middle of one of the world’s worst outbreaks of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru giving up on virus measures in face of sinking economy

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

A woman hauls a bucket of water to her home in the early morning hours in the Nueva Esperanza neighborhood of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Economic shutdowns aimed to curb the spread of new coronavirus have forced poor Peruvians, Argentines and tens of millions of others to fall back on community-based efforts amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Hungry neighbors cook together as virus roils Latin America

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and RODRIGO ABD - Associated Press

Josue Yacahuanca, a 21-year-old barber, his briefcase of tools in hand, ascends a flight of stairs in the San Juan de Lurigancho neighborhood of Lima, Peru, Friday, June 19, 2020. In the midst of one of the worst recessions in the western hemisphere due to an extensive quarantine to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the barber offers free haircuts in Lima's working class neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Barber offers hope in Peruvian barrios devastated by virus

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

A man moves an empty oxygen cylinder in Callao, Peru, Wednesday 3, 2020. Long neglected hospitals in Peru and other parts of Latin America are reporting shortages of Oxygen as they confront the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru is running out of oxygen for COVID-19 patients

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Cemetery workers carry the remains of Flavio Juarez, 50, who died of COVID-19, up the hill at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AP PHOTOS: Peru’s dead mourned at barren cemetery for poor

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and RODRIGO ABD - Associated Press

AP Exchange: Virus makes Nevadans trip to Peru a wild ride

By MARCELLA CORONA - Associated Press

In this April 27, 2020 photo, Daniel sits in grandmother's lap in their apartment in Caracas, Venezuela, as they chat via a messenger service with his father Misael Cocho. After fleeing Venezuela along with millions of others amid the country's grueling humanitarian crisis, Cocho made his way by bus to Peru — where he got odd jobs and sent money home monthly to support his mother and his 5-year-old son. But just after Cocho landed his steadiest work so far in Lima, the new coronavirus cases skyrocketed. He lost his job. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Virus prevents diaspora Venezuelans from sending money home

By SCOTT SMITH and CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press