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authors: Vázquez-Rowe, Ian; Gandolfi, Andrea
title: Peruvian efforts to contain COVID-19 fail to protect vulnerable population groups
date: 2020-06-11
journal: Public health in practice
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhip.2020.100020
sha: 9e21b84a903c0b292ccce1623d75363f55d147a3
doc_id: 822065
cord_uid: 40x92uwn

Abstract Peru is arguably providing a robust governmental response in the initial stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, with early lockdown measures and the implementation of relatively ambitious economic safety nets to protect families and enterprises. Despite this initial optimism, structural deficiencies in the public health system, high informality in the labor market, the new wave of migrants from Venezuela and the extremely diverse cultural characteristics of many areas exacerbate the number of potentially highly vulnerable groups that may be left out of these safety nets unless additional efforts are enforced to improve social coverage. In this discussion we aim to identify some of these groups, highlighting the main challenges they face during the outbreak and proposing certain mitigation measures to balance the social policy response.

substantially higher than in most South American nations, thanks to low public debt after 61 years of fiscal discipline, low inflation and a stable currency [14] . Despite these efforts, we 62 argue that there is a lack of emergency actions aimed at targeting certain highly vulnerable and belong to lower socio-economic groups [22] . They tend to be highly exposed to labor 

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The authors have no competing or conflicting interests.

The authors have no competing or conflicting interests.