Aged 90, his state of health continues to worry. However, the cacique Raoni, emblematic Brazilian defender of the environment, is in a "stable" state after having received a blood transfusion, said Sunday the Sinop hospital, where he has been hospitalized since Saturday.
The coronavirus hypothesis rejected
In a state of great weakness since Thursday, the spokesperson for the natives of Brazil is still undergoing examinations to determine the nature of the "gastrointestinal hemorrhage" that could be causing his health problems, said l medical establishment, located in the Central West of Brazil.
The hypothesis of contamination with the new coronavirus, which has caused nearly 80,000 deaths in Brazil, was however rejected on Saturday by the president of the French NGO Planète Amazone, which organized several fundraisers for the Kayapo people.
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Indigenous people have been hit hard by the pandemic due, among other things, to weak immunity: more than 16,000 indigenous people have been infected and 535 have died, according to data from APIB, the Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil. Raoni recently accused Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of wanting to "take advantage of this disease" to eliminate his people.
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