Peru arrests state hospital workers for charging Covid-19 patients

Peruvian police said on Wednesday they had dismantled an alleged criminal ring that had charged as much $21,000 (RM88,798) per bed for seriously ill Covid-19 patients in a state-run hospital, aggravating care in a country hit by one of the world's deadliest outbreaks of the virus.

Authorities arrested nine people in an early morning raid on Wednesday, including the administrators of Lima's Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen public hospital, according to prosecutor Reynaldo Abia...