As Covid-19 Reaches the Amazon, Indigenous People Are at Risk
- Urban centers are often a dayslong crowded boat ride away
- Main hospital in Amazonas state capital is at maximum capacity
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Since his 2018 election, Jair Bolsonaro has pushed for opening up the Amazon to mining and making Brazil’s indigenous population less like “animals in a zoo.” Now the government is helping those same communities seal themselves off from the outside world in a bid to hinder the coronavirus.