Brazil hands out masks to protect tribes

By Leonardo Benassatto
Updated July 2 2020 - 12:11pm, first published 12:09pm
Dozens of indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest have been infected with COVID-19.
Dozens of indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest have been infected with COVID-19.

Brazilian soldiers have handed out masks to barefooted Yanomami indigenous people including body-painted warriors carrying spears and bows and arrows on the second day of a military operation to protect isolated tribes from COVID-19.

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