COVID-19 in the peasant community of Ñuñungayocc – Huancavelica, 2020

Abstract

The general objective of this article is to explain the consequences of COVID-19 in families in the rural community of Ñuñungayocc-Huancavelica in 2020. The method used was scientific and inductive, the type of research is basic, with a qualitative approach, descriptive level. and ethnographic design. The key informants were ten community members (qualified and unqualified), the data collection techniques were documentary analysis, interviews, and observation. The result that was reached is that the pandemic generated by COVID-19 broke the tranquility of rural spaces; Ñuñungayocc is an area considered poor, with homes that live off communal productivity. Many of those who returned to Ñuñungayocc have been people who lost their jobs (informal trade), were fired (jobs in small factories), in general people who did not have their own home. This return meant many changes in the community, it has interrupted the tranquility of the communal territory, access to resources, and in terms of health, respiratory diseases and infections have occurred, which ended in the deaths of many natural community members of the area.

Finally, the conclusion is that COVID-19 generated the return of emigrants from cities such as Lima, Huancayo and Huancavelica, interrupting the tranquility of the communal territory, subsequently many of the families complicating their health and deaths in the peasant community, carrying out the treatment with ancestral and conventional wisdom.