The disappearance of Yanomami babies in Brazil

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In northern Brazil, four babies from Indigenous Yanomami families went missing after they were brought to a hospital exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms. An investigation revealed they had died and were then buried in a mass grave, with no word given to their mothers. Michael Fox reports from Brazil.

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