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8 Jun 2020

How an Amazon rainforest village survived Covid-19 with modern and traditional medicine

International Editor

Brazil has fast become the world’s new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.

While cities across Latin America’s biggest country have already been hit hard, there are growing fears that the disease could spread even deeper into its rural communities, especially those in the Brazilian rainforest.

Our international editor Lindsey Hilsum has been to meet members of the Kambeba tribe to find out how they have been coping.