{"id":143496,"date":"2021-11-02T18:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=143496"},"modified":"2021-11-02T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:40:17","slug":"forgotten-amazon-tribes-discover-existence-of-covid-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/forgotten-amazon-tribes-discover-existence-of-covid-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"&apos;Forgotten&apos; Amazon tribes discover existence of Covid for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8216;It&#8217;s the first we&#8217;ve heard about Covid&#8217;: &#8216;Forgotten&#8217; Amazon tribes are vaccinated for disease they&#8217;d never heard of until Peruvian medical team arrives by boat with shots for everyone<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Health workers travelled three days by boat to reach indigenous communities<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mariano Quisto, a community leader, said they had never heard about the virus<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Health workers gave talks on Covid and administered shots to several villages<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But many villagers complained they needed better healthcare in the remote communities where there are no doctors and common ailments are rife\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8216;Forgotten&#8217; indigenous tribes in the Amazon rainforest have finally been made aware of the global Covid pandemic more than 18 months after the world was plunged into lockdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mariano Quisto, a remote community leader deep in the dense forests of Peru, first learned of the global pandemic in October when health workers arrived by boat at his isolated village with vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We didn&#8217;t know about COVID-19. This is the first we are hearing about it,&#8217; Quisto said through a translator from the village of Mangual, in Peru&#8217;s vast but sparsely populated Loreto region in the country&#8217;s north.<\/p>\n<p>Government health workers and International Red Cross members arrived in Quisto&#8217;s Urarina indigenous community last month after a three-day boat ride along rivers starting from the Amazonian city of Iquitos, the world&#8217;s largest metropolis that is unreachable by road.<\/p>\n<p>In Mangual, the village highest up the river, residents hunt and fish for food and live in wooden stilt houses with no electricity, and many common ailments\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Connection with the outside world is minimal and the local language developed in isolation over centuries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/02\/17\/49965069-10157643-image-a-3_1635873213140.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Personnel from the Peruvian Red Cross speak to schoolchildren during an outreach by healthcare workers to the indigenous Urarina community about Covid-19 on October 12, 2021<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/02\/17\/49965127-10157643-image-a-2_1635873202870.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Community leader Mariano Quisto is administered a Covid vaccine by healthcare workers. The outreach programme in the Amazon rainforest was the first time the indigenous Urarina community had heard about the virus (October 11, 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/02\/17\/49965129-10157643-image-a-1_1635873201450.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare workers had to travel for three days by boats to reach the communities who live deep in the dense Amazon rainforest in Peru (pictured: remote indigenous community village near Santa Hermosa, Peru, October 12, 2021)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/02\/17\/49965057-10157643-image-a-6_1635874057399.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A woman is administered a vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during an outreach by healthcare workers in Saint Hermosa, Peru (October 13, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Brigades haven&#8217;t come here in many years. These communities are really forgotten,&#8217; said Gilberto Inuma, president of Fepiurcha, an organization advocating for Urarina rights.<\/p>\n<p>The broader Urarina indigenous group, one of Peru&#8217;s most insular, has just 5,800 people, official data show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But not all communities have been spared from the knowledge, or impact, of the pandemic with at\u00a0least five Urarina people having died from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The trip upriver underscores the challenges of vaccinating remote indigenous communities in Peru and beyond, as well as gaps in wider healthcare access for remote groups.<\/p>\n<p>Many community members complained that what they really needed was better continuous healthcare services.<\/p>\n<p>In the village with no doctors, ailments include headaches, diarrhea, malaria and conjunctivitis, Quisto said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We don&#8217;t know how to take care of our patients. That&#8217;s our worry.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous communities, especially in the Amazon, have some of Peru&#8217;s lowest vaccination rates, said Julio Mendigure, who heads health policy for the groups at the country&#8217;s health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 20% of them have been fully vaccinated, compared to around half for the country as a whole, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When you look at that number, you have to remember that to administer both doses, teams have to travel 4-5 hours. That&#8217;s in the best case scenario,&#8217; Mendigure explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/02\/17\/49965075-10157643-image-a-10_1635874829105.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>People on a small boat near San Marcos, Peru, ask for petrol from a group of healthcare workers travelling to administer vaccines (October 12, 2021)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/02\/17\/49965067-10157643-image-a-11_1635874839942.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Indigenous communities, especially in the Amazon, have some of Peru&#8217;s lowest vaccination rates, said Julio Mendigure, who heads health policy for the groups at the country&#8217;s health ministry (pictured: a nurse prepares to give vaccines to members of the indigenous community in San Marcos, Peru, October 11, 2021)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/11\/02\/17\/49965053-10157643-image-a-13_1635874857853.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A man is administered a vaccine by healthcare workers in San Marcos, Peru October 11, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Reaching Mangual required 26 hours of travel over three days along rivers that at times dry up or are blocked with fallen trees.<\/p>\n<p>The boat included a blue cooler box carrying 800 doses of China&#8217;s Sinopharm vaccine, refrigerated with dry ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A team will return in November to give second doses after administering over 600 inoculations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I decided to get the vaccine so that I don&#8217;t get sick,&#8217; said one Urarina woman who was inoculated and asked not to be named because the community so infrequently speaks to outsiders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Because it&#8217;s possible if traders come to visit they will bring the disease and pass it on.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10157643\/Forgotten-Amazon-tribes-discover-existence-Covid-time.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s the first we&#8217;ve heard about Covid&#8217;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&amp;apos;Forgotten&amp;apos; Amazon tribes discover existence of Covid for first time - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/forgotten-amazon-tribes-discover-existence-of-covid-for-first-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&amp;apos;Forgotten&amp;apos; 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