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Latin America has become a center of the corona crisis. The Federal Development Ministry is sending an expert group with specialists and laboratory materials to Peru for quick help.Development Minister Gerd Mller Nine million people worldwide have been infected with the corona virus. 140000 new infections are added every day which is the highest level since the pandemic began. We have to do everything possible to curb further spreading. This is especially true in Latin America where two million people are now infected. Our expert group of doctors and laboratory scientists provides immediate help and brings test kits and training. The next deployment of the white helmets starts today in Peru which is the seventh most affected country with over 250000 infections indigenous groups and the refugees there have been particularly hard hit.that experts from Charit - Universittsmedizin Berlin together with other specialists are supporting this crisis.The epidemic prevention teams of the Rapidly deployable expert group on health SEEG help to identify an outbreak as early as possible and contain the spread as far as possible. The group of experts has already provided help in the Corona pandemic in Namibia Benin Colombia and Ecuador. In the past few months ten laboratories have been equipped and local employees trained to use the pathogen safely. In addition more than 240000 corona tests have already been handed over to partner countries.The SEEG is a cooperation project initiated by the Federal Development Ministry and the Federal Ministry of Health between the Robert Koch Institute the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine and the German Society for International Cooperation GIZ. Experts from Charit - Universittsmedizin Berlin are also involved in COVID-19.
