Iquitos

The fish is sold in nearby cities, including Leticia, Colombia, Tabatinga, Brazil, and Iquitos, Peru.

People gathered in the city of Iquitos to see the baby turtles make their way down a river beach towards the water.

Reuters arrived with government health workers and International Red Cross members in Quisto’s Urarina indigenous community, after a three-day boat ride along rivers starting from the Amazonian city of Iquitos, the world’s largest metropolis that is unreachable by road.

The sick overwhelmed Iquitos’ feeble healthcare system.

It got so bad that authorities last year secretly buried hundreds of pandemic victims in unmarked graves in a cleared patch of jungle about 12 miles outside Iquitos.