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Covid-19: Venezuelan indigenous people receive vaccine in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The plan is to vaccinate 100% of the indigenous people belonging to the Warao, Eñepá, and Pemon ethnic groups. The operation is a collaboration between Operation Welcome, the federal and state ministries of Roraima state, and the Ministry of Health in the capital.

The Public Defender's Office (DPU) has been working to ensure that immigrant indigenous people receive the vaccine in other Brazilian cities to which they have moved.

It is believed that this population should benefit from the National Immunization Program (PNI) in the same way as Brazil's indigenous population. Public Defender . . .

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