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COVID-19 Cases Soar in Brazil’s Largest Indigenous Reservation

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The coronavirus has spread rapidly through the Yanomami indigenous reservation in northern Brazil and more than a third of its 27,000 people could have been exposed, according to a report produced by their leaders.

The Yanomami’s territory, which is also home to 600 Ye’kwana people, is the largest indigenous reservation in Brazil. It is threatened by swarms of illegal gold miners who have invaded their lands bordering Venezuela and are thought to be a major contagion risk.

Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the reservation have risen some 260% between August and October . . .

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