With only one ventilator, the remote Brazilian Amazon town of Santo Antonio do Ica has little choice but to send anyone with a severe case of COVID-19 to the city of Manaus some 550 miles away. But that involves a harrowing flight on a small plane. https://t.co/jfzW5I8YTV
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 20, 2020
Brazil's Indigenous tribes: COVID-19 spreading in Amazon regionhttps://t.co/e9iyT5NV8h
— One News Page (@One_News_Page) May 24, 2020
As coronavirus pandemic spreads in #Brazil, its Indigenous communities are taking a disproportionate hit.
★ Long Read of the Week—"Amazon under threat: fires, loggers and now virus", by @_camillacosta | @BBCWorld https://t.co/8DnPG6vUT9
— Brazil Charlab (@scharlab) May 25, 2020