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NEW DELHI: The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in India is threatening the endangered ethnic groups of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, officials and rights groups confirm.
The federally administered Andaman and Nicobar Islands with a population of 400,000 are an archipelago of 572 islands off the coast of southern India. They are home to five endangered tribes — the Jarawas, North Sentinelese, Great Andamanese, Onge and Shompen — that inhabit the archipelago’s more remote islands. More than 3,000 coronavirus cases and 50 related deaths have been recorded in the archipelago.
“While conducting COVID-19 tests, some Great Andamanese have tested positive with mild symptoms or asymptomatic, of whom three have recovered,” the Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration said in a statement to Arab News on Friday, without revealing the total number of coronavirus cases.
Media reports indicate that 13 people from the group categorized by the central government as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) have been infected. According to official data, there remain only 56 members of the Great Andamanese tribe.
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Post time 29-8-2020 09:07 AM
Post time 29-8-2020 09:07 AM
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