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Coronavirus: Brazil records highest daily jump in deaths
Updated On: 21 May, 2020 12:00 AM IST | | Agencies
In the face of a spreading pandemic, indigenous activists, celebrities and agents on the ground warn inaction is enough to wipe out many indigenous people
A Satere-Mawe indigenous child sits beside a man preparing medicinal herbs to treat people with COVID-19 symptoms in the Wakiru community, in Taruma, Brazil. Satere-Mawe indigenous leader Andre Satere said 11 people in their community are showing Coronavi
Brazil on Tuesday recorded the highest daily deaths caused by COVID-19, Reuters reported on Wednesday. So far, the virus has killed 17,971 in Brazil and infected 2,71,628, including 17,408 new cases registered on Tuesday.
COVID-19 has entered the remote indigenous lands in Brazil-s Amazon, the government agency responsible for protecting native people brushed off calls for action.
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