Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20201117:13:44:00
According to local organisations, more than one in eight indigenous people were infected in the amazon region. among those who caught the disease, the mortality rate was 150% higher than the brazilian average. but some communities have been organising their own defences. this is another group who live in villages near the brazil—peru border. they have managed to keep coronavirus out of their homes by strictly controlling who goes in and who goes out. so far, the measures have worked. we met leaders just outside the village who showed us how they order food, medicine and other supplies. the g...