Overview
- The Ministry of Health issued an epidemiological alert after national surveillance recorded 1,747 confirmed measles cases so far this year, with most infections concentrated in Puno and Arequipa.
- The government extended the national health emergency for 90 days through Supreme Decree n° 013-2026-SA to coordinate a nationwide response and free up resources for control measures.
- Health officials directed all public, private and mixed health facilities across Peru to strengthen surveillance and early case detection by implementing immediate sanitary responses.
- Authorities are intensifying vaccination that prioritizes clinical and support staff who work in high-exposure areas such as emergency, triage, outpatient clinics, ICUs, wards, operating rooms and laboratories.
- Facilities must apply differentiated triage and immediately separate any patient with fever and rash to avoid shared waiting-room exposures, a step meant to reduce nosocomial transmission while broader community vaccination and surveillance are scaled up.