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Judi Lynn

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Mon May 25, 2020, 08:25 PM May 2020

In pictures: Indigenous nurse on frontline in virus fight


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As the coronavirus pandemic has spread across Brazil, indigenous people have been among the worst affected.

On the outskirts of the city of Manaus, Parque das Tribos is a settlement of descendants from 35 different tribes.

Many homes lack plumbing and electricity, and there is no public health clinic nearby.

Nurse Vanderlecia Ortega dos Santos has responded by volunteering to care for her indigenous community of 700 families.



REUTERS

"Our people are dying from this disease here and they are not being recognised as indigenous people by the state," she told the Reuters news agency.

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