His death raises fears that the epidemic will spread among the largest indigenous tribe in northern Brazil. FMTNews Covid19
The Yanomami youth was the third indigenous person to die in the epidemic now sweeping Brazil.
Alvanei Xirixan, 15, died on Thursday night in intensive care in the main hospital of Boa Vista, capital of Roraima state, according to the local indigenous health service Dsei attached to the Ministry of Health. More than 26,000 Yanomami live on Brazil’s border with Venezuela on a reservation the size of Portugal. Their lands have been invaded for years by thousands of illegal gold miners who brought measles and other illnesses fatal to the tribe.
It said villagers with coronavirus symptoms were being isolated and test kits were rushed to the reservation.
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