LIVE SCIENCE - April 14, 2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of five indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon, including that of a 15-year-old boy from a remote tribe, according to news sources.
The teenager died on April 9 at a hospital in Boa Vista, the capital of Brazil's Roraima state, according to The Independent.
The boy was the first member of the Yanomami indigenous people known to have died from the new coronavirus. No one knows for sure how he contracted the illness, but his community lives near the Uraricoera River in northern Brazil, where up to 10,000 illegal gold miners have set up camps, according to 2019 coverage by Survival International, an organization that defends indigenous rights worldwide.
