Update 2025-01-08 : The indigenous Marubo man suspected of having a COVID-19 infection has tested negatively charged for the disease , Mongabayreports . There are still no confirmed case among indigenous mass in Brazil .
It ’s feared that a figure of indigenous people in Brazil ’s Javari Valley have been taint with COVID-19 after have got contact with a group of American holidaymaker .
At least three Marubo indigenous multitude , including an adult man and two children , have fallen sick with symptoms of febrility , cough , and consistency aches in Atalaia do Norte , westerly Amazonas state .
Department of State health authorities toldAmazônia Realthey surmise the case might be COVID-19 . However , there is no laboratory in the sphere to support the fount or not , so their sample have been sent to the nigh facility over 1,138 kilometers ( 707 miles ) away in the city of Manaus . Considering travel is currently restricted in Brazil , it could be some time until the outcome are revealed .
In the meantime , the mass have been told to self - isolate . However , as they live in a maloca , a traditional communal house used by indigenous people of the Amazon , with 14 other people , it will be rugged to contain the contagion .
The man , who first reported his symptoms at a hospital on Friday , March 20 , had been working as a spell guide for a radical of five American tourists , according toAmazônia Real . Although the holidaymaker group did not expose any symptoms , they are now being monitored by health professionals .
It ’s feared that some autochthonic people will be particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 since isolated groups have little or no produce unsusceptibility to other related to diseases and common infections diffuse in the general population .
“ This could be ruinous , Brazil ’s Javari Valley [ is ] home to many uncontacted tribes,”tweetedSurvival International , an endemic rights NGO .
“ Evangelical missionary STILL planning to contact these tribes . Only massive outcry will stop them , ” they added .
Survival Internationalalso reportsthat evangelical Christian missionary in Brazil have recently bought a chopper to meet and commute previously unapproachable tribes in the Javari Valley . Although their planshave been slightly hamperedby the COVID-19 outbreak , US - establish Christian group Ethnos360has said they planto practice a new purchased helicopter to change over insulate Amazon indigenous groups . They are alsoasking for donationsto buy three more helicopters to contact autochthonous people in Papua New Guinea ( PNG ) , saying “ Yes , mass in remote PNG are still waiting to hear the Gospel ! ”
Indigenous leaders in Brazil ’s Javari Valleyhave denouncedtheir plan as “ a genocidal onslaught . ”
" Our ancestors snuff it of epidemics in the past – we do n’t want this to hap again ! Our priest-doctor our bring to protect us but the regime must prevent epidemics make out into our land,“saidHutukara , an organisation represent Yanomami indigenous the great unwashed in Brazil .
