1. COVID‐19 and India's vulnerable indigenous populations.
- Author
-
Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy and Hsu, Minna J.
- Subjects
- *
INDIGENOUS peoples , *COVID-19 , *HEALTH facilities , *COMMUNICABLE diseases , *VIRAL transmission - Abstract
India's indigenous communities represent 8% of the total population and 25% of them are listed as the most impoverished (Government of India, 2011). The COVID-19 pandemic has already infected over 70 000 indigenous people with 2000 deaths (WHO, 2020). A quick search of the word "COVID-19" in Web of Science database for 2020 has yielded 41 798 papers and when the phrase "COVID-19 indigenous people" was used, it yielded only 38 papers. Likewise in March 2020, the Chhattisgarh state government reported only six COVID-19 cases (Raju, 2020). [Extracted from the article]
- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF