Galápagos Islands reopens for tourism

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The iconic Galápagos Islands are reactivating their main industry, tourism, after the COVID-19 pandemic stemmed the flow of visitors to the archipelago.

Now the islands’ inhabitants are getting inoculated and vaccinated tourists can visit.

Roughly one thousand kilometers off the coast of Ecuador, the Galápagos Archipelago has dozens of species of animal and plant found nowhere else on the planet.

Both the islands and the sea around them are a United Nations World Heritage Site and an Ecuadorian national park.

But their remoteness has not shielded them from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

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