Faced with the coronavirus pandemic and a shortage of medical supplies, hospital workers struggle to save lives across Peru. But in the port city of Iquitos, the largest in the Peruvian Amazon, the situation is even more critical.

Doctors are seeing COVID-19 patients die every day because the hospitals have run out of oxygen supplies.

Iquitos is the largest city in the world which cannot be reached by road. A local company doesn't have the capacity of producing oxygen cylinders for hundreds of COVID-19 patients in hospitals.

Three doctors have died from COVID-19 and more than a dozen have been flown out to get better medical treatment.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Peru is nearing 62,000 as of Saturday. More than 1,700 people has died. Despite almost two months under lockdown, Peru has struggled to contain the spread.

The government has now extended the quarantine through the end of the month.

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