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MANAUS, Brazil — In the historic center of Manaus, the largest city in the Brazilian Amazon, a giant mural depicting the city’s Indigenous history looms above pedestrians jostling for space on the sidewalk. Towering 34 meters (112 feet) high and outlined in thick streaks of spray paint, it shows canoes carrying Indigenous people spilling onto […]
MANAUS, Brazil — As she walks through the rubble, Yawaratsuni Kokama steps over loose bricks and piles of broken tiles, her eyes welling up. From time to time, she stops to pluck a ripened mango from a tree or yank a cassava root from the ground. “This is where our community garden used to be. […]
Updated: 8 Mar 2021, 11:01 UNCONTACTED and isolated Amazon tribes face being “wiped out” by the mutant Brazilian Covid strain as the government has been accused of genocide by campaigners. Activists claim invading loggers, miners and landgrabbers are spreading coronavirus to the sprawling rainforest's indigenous people, who have little immunity to most diseases, with the virus killing ten children recently in one village. �� Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates... 14 The uncontacted Awá in the Brazilian Amazon use the resin of the maçaranduba tree to make...
As a coronavirus variant causes cases and hospitalizations to skyrocket in the city of Manaus, authorities are racing to acquire more oxygen.
Brazilians are once again crowding their beaches and the country is marking a pandemic milestone, second only to the U.S. in COVID-related deaths.