The inflamed user was described as a 17-year-old pregnant woman from the Waorani tribe who began to develop symptoms on May 4. She was transferred to a hospital in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, and isolated, according to a report from the Ministry of Health.
According to Agence France-Presse, the Ecuadorian federal government worked with indigenous leaders to identify 40 other people with which women contacted within the Miwaguno community.
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“Seventeen citizens were found with a history of respiratory systems. To date, six of them have symptoms, so 20 tests and a total of seven nasopharyngeal samples have been taken,” the ministry of fitness said.
The effects of the tests and the main points of the girl’s fitness have still been made public.
Waorani organizations had warned that the effect of COVID-19 on their communities could become “catastrophic and highly deadly” because of their vulnerability to disease, according to the news agency. The Miwaguno network has about 140 inhabitants.
The Waorani Nation has about 2,000 members living in the fashionable provinces of Orellana, Napo and Pastaza in Ecuador, in the western Amazon region.
They traditionally lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers in small clan settlements, according to Amazon Frontlines, a non-profit that works with indigenous peoples to defend their right to live in the Amazon.
Meanwhile, the coronavirus pandemic has reached 38 indigenous teams in Brazil, affecting a fearful population with a history of being affected by external diseases.
On Friday, an investigation through the Brazilian Association of Indigenous Peoples (APIB) reported 446 cases of coronavirus and 92 deaths among the teams, the maximum of them in the Brazilian Amazon.
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“The virus is reaching the indigenous territories of Brazil at a rate,” APIB said in a statement, according to Al Jazeera.
As of Monday morning, Ecuador had more than 33,182 cases of coronavirus and at least 2,736 deaths from the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador was described as the center of one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in Latin America in March and April. The cemeteries were left without an area and families were forced to buy the bodies of their loved ones in their homes or on the streets, Reuters reported.
Attention in the country is now headed to Quito, which has a population of 2.8 million in strict closure.
“The fitness formula in Quito is reaching its limits,” the city’s mayor, Jorge Yunda, told the news organization on Friday.
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In Brazil, the epidemic has increased in recent weeks. The country has recorded more than 241,080 cases of coronavirus and at least 16,100 deaths from the virus. It is only the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom in terms of the total number of instances.