The number of corona virus infections in Peru has exceeded two lakhs, making this South American country closer to countries such as Britain, India, Spain and Italy in the list of countries most affected by infections. 
Peru’s Ministry of Health gave this information. The ministry said, “A total of 1227691 people have been screened till June 9, in which 203,736 people have been found infected.” He said that 5738 patients have died while 92,929 patients have been quarantined. The Corona virus outbreak was declared an epidemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March. So far, more than 72 lakh people have been infected worldwide while more than 4.12 lakh have died.Significantly, the number of corona virus patients in India is increasing continuously. There have been 9,985 new infection cases in the last 24 hours. Thus the total number of patients in the country has increased to 2,765,83. The death toll has also reached 7745. So far, more than 90 thousand corona patients have been found in Maharashtra alone.