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At least 28 communities living in extreme isolation in the Brazilian Amazon, and there may be as many as 80 more, have confirmed to be in existence.
On April 9, a Yanomami adolescent had died of COVID-19 in the northern state of Roraima. The youth had moved back and forth through an area rife with wildcat gold miners. Serious concerns that he may have spread the disease to scores of friends and neighbors since developing symptoms three weeks ago. It is unknown where or from whom he contracted the infection.
This is the second case of indigenous person dead in Brazil. Scattered across three Amazonian states, the total number of confirmed infected indigenous among the country’s tribes are now seven.
The first dead, in the north-central Amazon state of Pará, an 87-year-old Borari woman was confirmed COVID-19 infected post-mortem. The woman’s funeral in late March, was attended by hundreds of indigenous that were unaware that she carried the deadly virus and could transmit the disease.
“The indigenous inhabitants of Moxihatetema, in the heart of the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, have assiduously avoided contact with outsiders, even with other groups of Yanomami”.
“The Kayapó, in the Xingu River basin in the central Amazon region, struggle to preserve their cultural traditions in the face of exposure to the influences of the modern world.”
Due to the high degree of movement of indigenous people from one state to another in the Amazon, COVID-19 has fertile terrain to spread rapidly among the indigenous populations of Amazônia, which could lead to risk of genocite.
The Modern world has no way to protect indigenous people other than leaving them isolated.
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