COVID-19 Global Roundup: Peru extends lockdown for the fifth time

Peru on Friday extended its state of emergency and a nationwide lockdown for the fifth time to fight the coronavirus pandemic until the end of June, marking one of the longest periods of mandatory isolation in the world.

The Andean nation, which began the lockdown in mid-March, will have lived under it for more than three and half months by a June 30 expiration, outlasting restrictions in Italy, Spain and China, some of the hardest hit countries in the pandemic.

As of Monday, Peru has reported 119,959 cases of coronavirus, second most in Latin America after Brazil, including 3,456 deaths.