Brazilian teen’s death raises coronavirus alert for indigenous groups

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Despite many indigenous retreating into communal lands, virus may be penetrating there

Handout photo released by Brazil's Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health of an employee checking the temperature of members of the Tikuna ethnic group in Lago Grande, Amazonas state, Brazil on April 2,, 2020.A teenager from the Yanomami indigenous tribe has been killed by the new coronavirus in Brazil, the Health Ministry said Friday, raising alarm about the spread of the virus into protected lands.

“I am feeling very sad,” Kopenawa said. “He had a lot of fight left, a long life. But this happened.” In Amazonas, home to more indigenous people than any other state, the health secretary said this week that 95% of intensive care beds were already occupied. The Health Ministry’s weekly epidemiological report showed Amazonas with the greatest incidence of the COVID-19 disease, at 19 per 100,000 residents, although its total number of cases remains a fraction of the hot spot in São Paulo.

Public prosecutors have pressured the Health Ministry to direct resources to infrastructure, including construction of barriers and field hospitals, according to Antônio Carlos Bigonha, the office’s lead prosecutor.

 

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