Monday, the Latin American Country Peru revised its death toll to almost triple its previous figures making it the worst number with deaths per capita due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Government of Peru has said, it will update its death count from the current figures at  69,342 to 189,764. The government has said that the increment is due to the lack of proper testing that made it difficult to confirm whether a person had died of the virus or some other cause.

The revised figure corresponds to the period from March 1, 2020, to May 22, 2021, said Marushka Chocobar, president of the working group set to clarify the actual death toll in the country.

She said the working group applied seven "technical criteria" and a new tool called Noti-Sinadef for the count, making it possible to have a real and "closer daily figure of what is happening in the country" regarding the pandemic.

Peru has been among the hardest hit Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, with its hospitals overcrowded with patients and demand for oxygen outstripping availability. Experts had long warned that the true death toll was being undercounted in official statistics.