Health brigades visit poor neighbourhoods in Peru

Members of Peruvian army accompanied medical personnel to assist in identifying possible carriers of COVID in a low-income neighbourhood of Lima on Tuesday.

tactical operation named Tayta, which in Quechua langu means Far is a house-by-house search in Villa Maria del Triunfo neighbourhood in Andean capital.

concept originated in middle of last year (2020) in midst of worst of pandemic in order to identify infected people and facilitate isolation to prevent hospitals from becoming overcrowded.

After recent spike in COVID 19 cases, government is implementing more of se operations, to contain a possible second wave of infected.

Hospitals are full, and many longer have beds to care for those sick with new coronavirus.

Doctors in biosafety suits visited more than 200 homes in area and tested patients on street, to avoid getting infected, while military provided security in work area.

Peruvian Ministry of Health reported this Monday that accumulated number of positive cases of COVID-19 in country rose to 1,037,350 and total deaths surpassed 38,300 mark.