The current government of Brasil is not at all Indigenous friendly (but the Health minister seems to be, to the annoyance of the President). The first indigenous person to be afflicted was from the Kokoma tribe whom I had visited along the Amazon.
Hope the Yanomami child survives and that none of the adult Yanomami succumb to it. They live deep in the forest and are susceptible to even other simpler viruses.
Here is the notice from BBC news:
Brazil has confirmed the first case of the virus among the indigenous Yanomami. The ethnic group living in remote parts of the rainforest are known for already being vulnerable to foreign diseases.
"We have to be triply cautious with (indigenous) communities, especially the ones that have very little contact with the outside world," Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said.
The patient is a 15-year-old boy and he's being treated in the intensive care unit at a hospital, officials said.
The country has now confirmed at least seven coronavirus cases among the indigenous population, according to local media. Brazil is home to an estimated 800,000 indigenous people from more than 300 ethnic groups. The first virus case was among the Kokama a week ago.
Overall, Brazil has more than 14,000 confirmed cases and almost 700 deaths.
It is worth noting that the mortality rate of known or detected cases is one in twenty , so it is in Ecuador. The cuban mortality ratio so far is one in forty . These figures depend upon the amount of detection as well as implementation of social distancing, which Cuba is doing
I do not wish to hear any further bad news from Latin America about the demise of Indigenous Peoples. Ojala..
