Peru scraps gender-separation lockdown measure
A cat sits in an empty street in Lima, Peru, on Thursday. The country’s Covid-19 lockdown is in place till April 26. – EPA pic, April 11, 2020.
PERU yesterday cancelled a controversial measure restricting public movement by gender to try and curb the spread of Covid-19 after just a week. A decree in the official gazette said instead of men and women leaving their homes on alternate days “to buy food, pharmaceutical products and perform financial operations, only one person per family unit can move from Monday to Saturday”.
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