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The mayor of Manaus asked this Saturday the environmentalist activist Greta Thunberg to exercise “her influence” to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic in his city, located in the heart of the Amazon and one of the most affected by the virus in Brazil.
“We need help. The lives of forest protectors must be saved, saved from the coronavirus. We are facing a disaster, a barbarism, ”said Arthur Virgilio Neto on Twitter, in a video in English addressed to the famous Swedish teenager.
“I am aware of the influence that you have and I know your capacity for compassion for others. My people suffer and that is why I address these words to you. Help the Amazon, the Amazon and the forests must be saved, “he concluded.
The state of Amazonas, whose capital is Manaus, exceeded on Saturday the 500 dead by Covid-19, including numerous indigenous people.
Hospitals are in urgent need of equipment, and some have used refrigerated containers to stack corpses.
In a recent interview with AFP, Mayor Virgilio Neto described “Scenes from horror movies”.
On several occasions since the start of the crisis unleashed by the new coronavirus pandemic, he has been seen crying during live television interviews.
Thunberg, 17, donated Thursday $ 100,000 to UNICEF to protect children from the pandemic.
The young Swedish woman had received this sum after winning an award from the Danish NGO Human Act.
On Saturday, the activist retweeted a Greenpeace press release denouncing the lack of protection of indigenous peoples exposed to the pandemic.
“It is completely unacceptable. The situation in the Amazon under the coronavirus pandemic is truly alarming. We must defend the defenders of the forests, ”he wrote.
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