Brazil’s Indigenous communities losing leaders to COVID-19

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Brazil has one of the highest rates of infection in the world. The virus has hit Indigenous populations in Brazil especially hard. More than 700 Indigenous people have died there. As Michael Fox reports, the loss of ancestral leaders is taking its toll on Native communities.

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