PORT BLAIR, INDIA (AFP) - Ten members of India's dwindling Great Andamanese tribe have tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said Thursday (Aug 27), fuelling concerns about the safety of the group and other indigenous people in the remote archipelago.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PORT BLAIR, INDIA - Ten members of India's dwindling Great Andamanese tribe have tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said Thursday , fuelling concerns about the safety of the group and other indigenous people in the remote archipelago.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a chain of islands in the Indian Ocean with a population of some 400,000, has reported 2,268 coronavirus cases so far with 37 deaths. Anthropologists and activists for isolated tribal communities say more than 5,000 Great Andamanese lived in the islands when British settlers arrived in the 19th century.
In 2018, a 26-year-old American missionary seeking to convert the nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe was killed after he secretly visited the North Sentinel island.Outsiders are banned from visiting the island to protect the Sentinelese way of life and avoid exposing them to infectious diseases.
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