Report: Brazil’s indigenous people are dying at an alarming rate from Covid-19 (5-24-20)

Report: Brazil’s indigenous people are dying at an alarming rate from Covid-19

Shasta Darlington, Jose Brito, and Flora Charner, CNN

5-24-20

Far from hospitals and often lacking basic infrastructure, Brazil’s indigenous people are dying at an alarming rate from Covid-19 with little help in sight. The mortality rate is double that of the rest of Brazil’s population, according to advocacy group Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) which tracks the number of cases and deaths among the country’s 900,000 indigenous people. APIB has recorded more than 980 officially confirmed cases of coronavirus and at least 125 deaths, which suggests a mortality rate of 12.6 percent — compared to the national rate of 6.4 percent.

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