How Indigenous people in the Amazon are coping with the coronavirus pandemic
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 08:20
in Earth & Climate
A 15-year-old boy from a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon, near the border with Venezuela, died of COVID-19 on April 9. A member of the 35,000-strong Yanomami people, the boy was the first known death among Brazil's Indigenous communities in the current pandemic. There are now growing fears that COVID-19 will wreak havoc across the Amazon.