I am Indigenous, not pardo : Push for self-declaration in Brazil s census mongabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mongabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Covid-19 situation in Brazil continues to be critical. Almost 265,000 people have died and cases continue to rise, with an average of 1,455 people dying every day in the first week of March the highest average since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The new unit in the Park of Tribes: mobilization against abandonment / Neto Ramos/Coaib
Manaus, Brazil (Feb. 26, updated March 4) With the public health system collapsing and the oxygen crisis, Amazonas has had more than 290,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the second and worst wave of the pandemic. The crisis has dramatically affected the inhabitants of Park of Tribes, located in the urban zone of Manaus, and, without the support of public authorities, they decided to seek their own solution. And so the Health Support Unit for Indigenous Peoples (UASPI) was born, a health post staffed by and for neighborhood people.
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UNCONTACTED and isolated Amazon tribes face being “wiped out” by the mutant Brazilian Covid strain as the government has been accused of genocide by campaigners.
Activists claim invading loggers, miners and landgrabbers are spreading coronavirus to the sprawling rainforest s indigenous people, who have little immunity to most diseases, with the virus killing ten children recently in one village. Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates.
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The uncontacted Awá in the Brazilian Amazon use the resin of the maçaranduba tree to make fire to light houses and to hunt at night
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A nurse takes the temperature of a Covid-19 patient member of the Witoto indigenous tribe at a hospital set up near Manaus, BrazilCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Uncontacted Amazon tribes on brink of being WIPED OUT by Brazil s mutant Covid as bug unleashed by invading loggers thesun.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thesun.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.