In late May, Terezinha de Souza, 45, (pictured above) of the Sateré Mawé indigenous ethnic group, fell ill with fever, body aches, and a dry cough, and when her health deteriorated she crossed the river to the indigenous wing of the Manaus hospital, inaugurated just a few days earlier, where she has first turned away but later admitted. In de Souza's opinion, hospitalisations in her community could have been avoided had a nurse or doctor visited them at earlier stages of the pandemic.
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