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In Brazil’s Amazon, Indigenous people fear surge in COVID-19 deaths

Coronavirus Brazil Manaus burial

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation With hospitals overflowing and oxygen supplies running low, Indigenous leader Joilson Karapana fears a second wave of COVID-19 deaths in the Brazilian city of Manaus could prove even more devastating for his tribal community. When the coronavirus pandemic swept the Amazon metropolis last year, several of Karapana’s close relatives […]