La Organización Mundial de la Salud OMS caracterizó oficialmente al CORONAVIRUS como una pandemia. Hasta la fecha existen más de 6 millones de casos y más de 372.000 muertos en todo el mundo
según el sitio web de rtve.
Ante esta alarmante crisis, cada país afectado ha tomado algunas medidas de prevención y atención. Sin embargo, las medidas tomadas en respuesta a la crisis en muchos países han reflejado total desigualdad y marginación hacia los Pueblos Indígenas.
Freelance Journalist Maria Clara Valencia talks to us about the vulnerability of Indigenous Peoples in Colombia in the face of COVID-19. Maria also gives us an in depth description of the social ills that the Indigenous Peoples in this region are facing. More importantly, we hear about the resilience of these communities and how they are planning to survive.
As covid-19 is sweeping across the globe and humanity as a whole battles with the consequences of this pandemic, one cannot help but to be reminded of the epidemics of the past, particularly the ones that caused pain and suffering and death amongst Indigenous Peoples.
Aneeqa Duplessis from Voice of The Cape Radio went to Hangberg in CapeTown, where she spoke to local residents to find out how the restrictions placed on them by being locked down is affecting poor communities.
CapeTown is home to a population of people of whose ancestry includes that of Indigenous Khoi and San people, as well as those of slave ancestry.
Voices: Aneeqa Duplessis
Radio Station: Voice of the Cape, South Africa