The Juma Amazonian tribe has been wiped out by Covid after its last male member and chief, Aruká Juma, died from complications caused by coronavirus on 17 February 2021. The last head of his indigenous tribe left just 4 female members behind, thereby ending his lineage.

An estimated 15,000 people were in the Juma tribe in the 18th century when their existence was first recorded in the deep Amazon rainforest. The tribe's numbers fell to around 100 members by 1934, and a massacre in 1964 left just 6 members of the tribe alive, including Mr Juma and his brother-in-law, who died in 1999.

It is believed the Covid-19 virus was spread to the tribe by miners and loggers entering their territory illegally. Mr Juma's daughters Mandeí Juma, Maitá Juma and Boreha Juma and a girl are now the only surviving members of the tribe. His daughters said in a statement: "Our father fought a lot, he was a warrior, and his fight we will continue".

Mr Juma died due to complications caused by Covid-19 on February 17 in a Brazilian hospital in Pôrto Velho, capital of the state of Rondônia. He was aged between 86 and 90 and had travelled for 2 hours on a boat followed by a 75 mile drive to the hospital.

The coronavirus crisis has hit the indigenous people who live in the Amazon disproportionately. His 3 daughters have all married into a different tribe so cannot carry on his lineage. Raphaela Lopes, a lawyer with Justiça Global, told NBC: "We have been witnessing the end of indigenous peoples, like, literally the last members of certain indigenous communities are dying and there are no successors."

There have been 50,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 among indigenous communities, and 900 deaths – according to the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, which tracks and advocates for the country's Indigenous movement.

The Federal Prosecutor's Office of Rondônia said in a statement: "In the mid-60s, the Juma people were almost extinct due to the massacres that other relatives suffered in the previous decades by rubber tappers, loggers and fishermen in the territory, which is on the banks of the Assuã River, in Canutama. Aruká was one of the survivors of his ethnicity. The indigenous man leaves three daughters, the last people of the Juma ethnic group: Mandeí Juma, Maitá Juma and Boreha Juma."

Brazil has the world's highest per-capital Covid death toll after the US, with more than 282,000 deaths and more than 11.6 million cases, according to health ministry data.

SOURCE: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/covid-tragedy-last-male-survivor-23761116

But he left 3 daughters so what is dead may never die

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How can you die from complications caused by coronavirus?

Except you tell me that he died from complications after taking the vaccine.

Secondly if this virus was so dangerous as they say, why do we have to go for a test to find out if we have it?

malcom1X:
How can you die from complications caused by coronavirus?

Except you tell me that he died from complications after taking the vaccine.

Secondly if this virus was so dangerous as they say, why do we have to go for a test to find out if we have it?

Business of pandemic

Well....