U.S. COVID-19 vaccines donation arrives in Peru

Coronavirus vaccines donated by the United States began arriving in Peru on Tuesday evening.

Peru's President Francisco Sagasti was at the airport to welcome the consignment, alongside the American ambassador to Lima.

The first delivery amounted to just over one million doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

The US has promised more than two million doses in total.

Sagasti thanked U.S. President Joe Biden for the donation.

Peru has one of the world's highest death tolls from the virus, compared with the size of its population.

As of Tuesday it had reported just under 192,000 deaths, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.