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62% of Brazil’s Amazon indigenous people fully vaccinated against Covid-19

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Covid-19 vaccination of indigenous people living in villages in Legal Amazon states (Pará, Mato Grosso, Maranhão, Amapá, Amazonas, Rondônia, Roraima, Acre and Tocantins) reached 77% coverage for the first dose and 62% for the second. The data are from the Ministry of Health's official platform compiled up to Friday, June 18.

Vaccination coverage of indigenous people in this region is about 10 percentage points lower than that recorded among traditional peoples across the country - the national rate stands at 83% for the first dose and 72% for the second. The group is . . .

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