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An Indigenous woman shows her vaccination card after receiving the second dose of Sinovac's CoronaVac coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a health station.
Indigenous people living in reserves not yet formally recognized by Brazil's government say they do not feel part of the country's Indigenous "priority" vaccination push.
Vanderlecia Ortega dos Santos, 32, a nurse who has volunteered to provide the only frontline care protecting her indigenous community of 700 families from the COVID-19 outbreak, embraces her niece Maria Eduarda Ribeiro Ortega, 4.
The rate of COVID-19 deaths among Indigenous people in Brazil's Amazon is nearly 250% higher than in the general population, new data shows.
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