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Peru Reopens Shopping Centers with Restrictions Closed for Months Over
COVID-19 Spread

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   Shopping malls in Peru are welcoming customers for the first time in
   just over three months.

   Stores reopened Monday to half their normal capacity and limitations on
   timeallowedforshopping ineach store.

   Shoppers were only allowed inside after a temperature check, andtheir
   shoes and hands were sanitized.

   Until Monday, only supermarkets, pharmacies, and bankswere allowed
   toopen in shopping malls.

   Street sellers, the so-called backbone of the informal economy in
   Peru,are upsetthey were not included in the arrangements to reopen
   business.

   Peru's gradual reopening is taking place as the country remains one of
   theworst impactednations by thecoronavirusin LatinAmerica,with just
   over 8,000 deaths and morethan 254,000infections.

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