Global Times

Indigenous care matters

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Native are especially vulnerable, US media reported.

The US government’s incompeten­ce in controllin­g the domestic epidemic worsens the vulnerabil­ity of the minority groups in the global medical crisis.

Incapable government officials never reflect on their own systematic loopholes but rather keep blaming the Chinese government, which, in contrast, guaranteed equal accessibil­ity of treatment for all ethnicitie­s and valued the human rights of the vulnerable as a priority.

Failed obligation­s

By mid-May, Navajo Nation surpassed New York and New Jersey for having the highest per-capita COVID-19 infection rate in the US. For Paige Murphy, an independen­t Navajo activist in Albuquerqu­e, N not a surprise, but a remin

Given the facts that ma diabetes, cancer, heart dis been prevalent in indigen the virus, as many local offi likely more lethal to Nativ elderly, who dwell in narro department­s.

“Coronaviru­s is exposin that the reservatio­n alread the Global Times. “The N has 13 grocery stores. A lo don’t have the funds to bu up,” which she added was Navajo families make freq necessitie­s, inc risks.”

The Trum pledged $60 Navajo Natio Act passed i package stip Native commun US. The Treasury Departm only allocate 60 percent o on population data, but tri federal government is dra

“The tribe has yet to re from the federal governm waiting on that financial a adding such money could

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