EL CARÁCTER DE CLASE DE LA EXPANSIÓN DEL COVID-19: EL CASO DE LA CAPITAL DEL PERÚ, LIMA

• Autor: LUST, JAN
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Ricardo Palma
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Ricardo Palma
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:oai.revistas.urp.edu.pe:article/4551
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.urp.edu.pe/index.php/Scientia/article/view/4551
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Perú, COVID-19, clases trabajadoras, división internacional del trabajo, microempresas, informalidad, modelo de desarrollo neoliberal; Peru, COVID-19, laboring classes, international division of labor, micro companies, informality, neoliberal development model

Peru has become one of the most affected and infected countries by COVID-19. The expansion of the virus could not be contained by a complete lockdown and a state of emergency. The reopening of the economy increased the expansion of COVID-19. Peru’s role in the international division of labor, the country’s company structure, high levels of informality and the general use of temporary contracts are the structural conditions on which the expansion of COVID-19 in the country rests. For in Metropolitan Lima, districts with a more than average rate of informality have also a more than average rate of COVID-19 infections. In this article, it is argued that COVID-19 is not a democratic virus but a class virus. As such, it is contended that the neoliberal development model has been responsible for the government’s limitation to implement measures according to the country’s social and economic structure that might have contained the expansion of COVID-19