Coronavirus live news: US nears 500,000 Covid-related deaths; Slovakia asks EU for help with 'tragic' situation
Slovakia currently has highest death rate in world relative to population; Italy extends ban on non-essential travel between regionsFauci laments ‘historic’ Covid toll as US nears 500,000 deathsVaccinating children could be key to stifling Covid, say expertsAustralia: Pfizer’s vaccine rolled out to priority groups Human rights under attack during Covid, says UN headUK coronavirus – latest updates 3.13pm GMT Covid-19 has taken the life of the last male from Brazil’s indigenous Juma tribe. The elder Aruká, who died last week in a hospital in the upper Amazon River basin, leaves behind three daughters who are now the only survivors of a group that just three centuries ago was thousands of members strong.Aruká Juma, a native Brazilian, was aged between 86 and 90 when he died from complications caused by coronavirus on Wednesday in an intensive care unit (ICU) in a hospital in Porto Velho, a city located in the upper Amazon River basin, and 120 kilometers by road and two hours by boat from his village.His death, just like the 1,150 other Covid-19 fatalities registered that day across Brazil, was a tragedy for his next of kin. But Aruká was also the last male from the Juma people, a living memory of ancestral wisdom and a survivor of an attempt to wipe out his kind. The three daughters he leaves behind are now the only ones left from a people who counted on between 12,000 and 15,000 members in the 18th century. 2.58pm GMT Slovakia’s foreign minister called on EU partners on Monday
