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Ten indigenous people from remote Andaman islands infected with Covid-19

Ten members of the tribe of the great Andamanians, who live in the Andaman Islands, in the Indian Ocean, have contracted the new coronavirus, Indian authorities announced on Thursday, which worries the future of the indigenous population. The tribe, made up of only about fifty people living on the small island of the Strait, is totally dependent on the Indian government for its survival.

The territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which separates the Bay of Bengal from the Andaman Sea, has a population of 400,000 inhabitants and officially has 2,268 cases of new coronavirus, with 37 deaths already registered.

Indian authorities sent a medical team to Strait Island on Sunday to assess the situation after six members of the tribe tested positive in Port Blair, the territory’s capital.

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