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Brazil teen’s death raises virus alert for indigenous groups

by Associated Press
| April 11, 2020 12:03 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A teenager from the Yanomami indigenous tribe has been killed by the new coronavirus in Brazil, the Health Ministry said Friday, raising alarm about the spread of the virus into protected lands.

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