A surge in coronavirus infections was detected among inmates of a prison in the southern Colombian city of Leticia, Luis Diaz, the chairman of a prison workers union, said on Tuesday, adding that at least 85 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19

During the opening of a meeting of the Amazon countries' presidents in the Colombian city of Leticia on Friday, Colombian President Ivan Duque called for a decisive action against deforestation in the region and promised to plant 180 million trees in areas affected by fires in his country by 2022

The ongoing burning of the Amazon rainforest threatens to destroy a major reservoir of biodiversity in the region and release a large quantity of carbon locked in the forest biomass, Antonio Navarra, the president of Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, told Sputnik on Monday