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Coronavirus reaches Amazon’s isolated Yanomami tribe
Fears grow as Brazil confirms a 15-year-old Indigenous Yanomami boy contracted COVID-19
Brazil has announced the first coronavirus case among the Yanomami people, an Amazon indigenous group known for its remoteness and vulnerability to foreign diseases.
- Al Jazeera
- AFP News Agency
The patient, a 15-year-old boy, was being treated in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Boa Vista, the capital of the northern state of Roraima, officials said.
“Today we confirmed a case among the Yanomami, which is very worrying,” Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta told a…