A specialist stands in a mobile unit set up by the Peruvian Ministry of Health as a preventive measure if a case of the COVID-19 virus comes up, at the Hipolito Unanue Hospital, in Lima on February 27, 2020.  So far, Peru has no record of the COVID-19 virus cases. / AFP / Ernesto BENAVIDES
A specialist stands in a mobile unit set up by the Peruvian Ministry of Health as a preventive measure if a case of the COVID-19 virus comes up, at the Hipolito Unanue Hospital, in Lima on February 27, 2020. So far, Peru has no record of the COVID-19 virus cases. / AFP / Ernesto BENAVIDES

El Ministerio de salud informó sobre el primer muerto en Perú por el coronavirus en el hospital de la Fuerza Aérea del Perú.

Se trata de un paciente de 78 años con antecedentes de hipertensión arterial