Sources: BBC
The Peruvian government declares a state of emergency in the capital city Lima and deploys military personnel to make patrols to combat increased violent crime rates. 2025-03-18
Protests break out across Peru, including the capital Lima, in response to ousting and detainment of former President of Peru Pedro Castillo. 2022-12-8
Peru begins vaccinations for people aged 30 in Lima, Callao, and the Ica Region. 2021-09-5
President Francisco Sagasti announces a total lockdown in the capital Lima and nine other regions following a significant increase in COVID-19 cases. 2021-01-26
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
The Chamber of Commerce of Lima warns that just under a million Peruvians are at risk of returning to poverty. 2019-06-25
A fire destroys almost all of the approximately 710 commercial premises of an important market in Lima, Peru. The fire is exacerbated by flammable products stored in many of the stores. One person was injured and also there were allegations of looting. 2018-05-11
A police operation in nine commercial premises of the district of La Victoria, in Lima, Peru, managed to seize two tons of pharmaceutical and natural products with an expired shelf life, without sanitary registration, and allegedly falsified. The police officers in charge of this raid on informed that now they will continue to find the whereabouts of all the people involved in the commercialization of this merchandise. 2018-04-29
Hundreds of nude cyclists take to the street in Lima, Peru to protest unsafe road conditions. 2012-03-10