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Vanderlecia Ortega dos Santos, 32, a nurse from the Witoto tribe, an indigenous ethnic group, who has volunteered to provide the only frontline care protecting her indigenous community of 700 families from the COVID-19 outbreak, wears a face mask that reads “Indigenous lives matter” as she poses for a photo outside, near her home in Parque das Trios, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the Taruma district, Manaus, Brazil, May 3, 2020. “Our people are dying from this disease here and they are not being recognized as indigenous people by the state and Sesai”, said Santos. (Photo by Bruno Kelly/Reuters)
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