Deep in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil, where rivers are the only highways, the coronavirus pandemic is sharply limiting boat traffic, ...
Authorities in Amazonas state in northern Brazil have restricted river traffic to essential travel, seeking to stop the spread of the coronavirus in a region that could be particularly vulnerable to it. CARAUARI: Deep in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil, where rivers are the only highways, the coronavirus pandemic is sharply limiting boat traffic, leaving villages even more cut off from the world than before.
Even those trips are bound by special rules: boats can only operate at 40 per cent of their passenger capacity, and must supply water, soap and hand sanitiser. Travelers typically sleep on hammocks they bring themselves, slung one above the other like bunk beds. It has registered 532 cases of the new coronavirus so far - mostly in the state capital, Manaus - with 19 deaths.
Indigenous peoples are particularly vulnerable to imported diseases, as they have been historically isolated from germs against which much of the world has developed immunity. "Movement is very limited now. Outsiders can't even go to the protected nature reserves" where most of those families live, said Edervan Vieira, a technical adviser to an association of farmers and fishermen in Carauari, a week's trip upriver by boat from Manaus.
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