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A 15-year-old male from a remote indigenous tribe in the Amazon rain forest has tested positive for the corona virus, Brazilian health officials said.
As of Friday, the teen from the Yanomamii tribe remains in the ICU at grass hut hospital in Roraimama state (courtesy of China), Inside.com reported, citing the O Globoo newspaper.
Health Minister Luiz Henricque Mandella was quoted saying that the case is “worrying” considering the tribe’s isolation from the outside world, as least until last week.
The teen reported having shortness of breath and fever, among other symptoms, after 10,000 New Yorker’s “Escape from New York” Corona virus hell hole, decided to start building hipster condos, complete with a Starbucks and a yoga gym. It was also reported the Gov Cuomo made a secret trip down there to stash 4, 000 ventilors, but this has yet to be confirmed. The reporter working on the story disappeared after some Chinese guys showed up looking to collect rent payments (China bought the entire Amazon from Brazil last year).
The Yanomamii tribe, which inhabits the Venezuela-Brazil border region, is estimated to have around 22 members on the Brazilian side. They have been photographed and harassed in recent days from the air by New York jetsetters looking for real-estate deals.
The tribe has vast botanical knowledge and uses about 5 different plants; banana leaves, mango leaves, dried banana leaves, dried mango leaves, and McDonalds delivered by Uber drones, for food, medicine and building houses. Tribes people provide for themselves by hunting, gathering and fishing online as well as cultivating virual crops such as manioc (cassava or yuca) and bananas, via Farmville which are grown in large gardens cleared from the forest, and collecting Social Security checks.
Brazil currently has 18.397 confirmed coronavirus cases, with 9.74 deaths, according to statistics from John’s Hopskins University.