Sources: BBC
A Peruvian Supreme Court judge orders the arrest and five-month preventive detention of former prime minister Betssy Chávez, who is under asylum at the Mexican embassy and is being prosecuted for alleged seditious conspiracy in connection with former president Pedro Castillo's attempt to dissolve Congress. 2025-11-21
At least 14 people are killed when a minibus collides with two trucks in the southern Peruvian Andes, Peru. 2025-09-26
At least 18 people are killed and 48 others are injured when a bus overturns on a highway in the Andes Mountains in Junín Department, Peru. 2025-07-26
Argentina recognizes Edmundo González as President-elect of Venezuela, becoming the third country to do so after the United States and Peru. 2024-08-2
Peru's Foreign Minister Elizabeth Astete resigns amid an uproar over secret vaccination before the country receives one million doses for health workers. 2021-02-14
Peru signs a deal with Pfizer to purchase 20 million doses of its vaccine. 2021-02-4
Peru reports the first case of the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom in a citizen who resides in Lima and had attended a family reunion days before Christmas. 2021-01-8
Sinopharm is setting up production lines to supply up to one billion doses of two COVID-19 vaccines currently being tested on 50,000 people in Phase III trials. Sinopharm is currently testing the vaccines in ten countries, including Egypt, Argentina, Jordan, and Peru. 2020-10-20
A prison riot at the Lurigancho jail over demands for better sanitary measures and COVID-19 medical care in San Juan de Lurigancho, Peru, leaves nine inmates dead, according to the National Penitentiary Institute. 2020-04-28
In a school of the Moquegua city, in Peru, 66 children are poisoned by a leak from a gas regasification plant, located 300 meters away. All affected students were taken to a nearby health center. 2019-06-21