Indigenous Amazonians face ravages of the ‘invader’ virus (8-17-20)

Indigenous Amazonians face ravages of the ‘invader’ virus

Financial Times

8-17-20

It is the white man “who brought the disease to the indigenous peoples of the Amazon”, Joilson Karapanã told me bitterly. In June, the indigenous warrior from the Karapanã tribe embarked with his father, the village chief, and his older brother on a half-day boat ride downstream to Manaus to seek medical help. Days later, both his relations had died of Covid-19.

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