A Tragedy Foretold: COVID-19 Infections Spike in Yanomami Territory Rainforest Foundation US 11-19-20 Yanomami and Ye’kwana organizations and a network of researchers launch an unprecedented report that details the progress of the pandemic in the indigenous territory, suggesting that one in three yanomami may have already been infected...
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COVID-19 cases soar in Brazil's largest indigenous reservation Lisandra Paraguassu, Reuters 11-19-20 The coronavirus has spread rapidly through the Yanomami indigenous reservation in northern Brazil and more than a third of its 27,000 people could have been exposed, according to a report produced by their leaders. Read more: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-brazil-yanomami/covid-19-cases-soar-in-brazils-largest-indigenous-reservation-idUKKBN27Z355...
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Yanomami mothers fight for the right to bury their children during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil Emily Costa and Kátia Brasil 7-24-20 Amazônia Real's report located indigenous children buried without their families' knowledge. On July 1, a mother of Yanomami ethnicity, and member of the Sanöma subgroup, received her...
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Brazil Health Workers May Have Spread Coronavirus to Indigenous People Manuela Andreoni, Ernesto Londoño and Letícia Casado 7-19-20 The telltale symptoms began in late May, about a week after government medical workers made a routine visit to the Kanamari Indigenous community in a remote part of the Amazon:...
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Mães Yanomami imploram pelos corpos de seus bebês Eliana Brum 6-24-20 Três mulheres vivem um horror para o qual será preciso inventar um nome. Elas são Sanöma, um grupo da etnia Yanomami, e sua aldeia, Auaris, fica no que os brancos chamam de Roraima, na fronteira do Brasil...
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Disaster looms for indigenous Amazon tribes as COVID-19 cases multiply Scott Wallace, National Geographic 6-15-20 With the coronavirus spreading into remote territories across the Brazilian Amazon, indigenous leaders and rights officials are pleading with the government to adopt urgent measures to head off a catastrophe. According to figures compiled...
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