Some 10,000 Peruvian Army reservists will return to the
barracks to help patrol the streets during the coronavirus quarantine, due to
the high number of people failing to comply with the emergency, a military
command said on Wednesday.
Reservists began to enroll again this morning in the
barracks, after a call from President Martín Vizcarra, to enforce the order for
social restraint and night curfew and prevent the disease from spreading.
"They are graduates who served the Army and we hope
that some 10,000 will return," Colonel Martín Tisoc, the Army's chief of
human resources, told the América Televisión channel.
At the Chorillos military headquarters in Lima, hundreds of
reservists with masks lined up to record their personal data and undergo a
medical examination, before beginning a "retraining" and then going
out on patrol, the officer said.
Vizcarra, in his daily press conferences since the first
case of coronavirus appeared in the country, calls on the population to stay
home, but arrests for breaking the rule have increased, mainly in the north of
the country.
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