A couple from Cork have again appealed for help from the government to have them and about 38 other Irish people brought back to Ireland from Peru. They are among about 40 Irish tourists trapped there under martial law as the country deals with the worsening COVID-19 crisis. If they don’t - they face arrest if caught outside their hotel, food rationing and growing hostility from local people. The couple are in a hotel in Cusco, some 20 hours by land from the country’s capital city, Lima. He told the Irish Examiner: “As the situation here in Peru is deteriorating by the day, we ask that the government please do your utmost to repatriate Irish Citizens.

Source: Irish Examiner March 21, 2020 15:11 UTC