I Covered Covid-19’s Surge in Peru. Then Death Came to My Own Family.

LIMA, Peru—Months into the coronavirus pandemic, Peru has suffered the arena’s worst per capita demise toll, a surge in demise that has left tens of thousands of households heartbroken. Along with my own.

On Sept. 2, my partner of’s father, Abelardo Márquez, died from Covid-19, a illness one doctor told us had swept through his lungs adore a woodland fire. He became as soon as the backbone of my wife’s mammoth family, a talented artist who painted Peru’s enticing Andean countryside. A form and indifferent man married for nearly 60 years, he became as soon as also a 2nd father…