By Dan Collyns in Lima, Sam Cowie in São Paulo, Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Groups in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru withdraw into homes as physicians highlight history of diseases ‘decimating’ communities. Indigenous groups across South America are blockading their villages and retreating into their traditional forest and mountain homes in an effort to escape the potentially cataclysmic threat of coronavirus.

Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/south-america-indigenous-groups-coronavirus-brazil-colombia