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The photo of an indigenous man carrying his father on his back to receive a Covid-19 vaccine in the Brazilian Amazon has gone viral around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
This moment has become a symbol of the complicated logistics of vaccination in one of the most remote areas of the world.<\/p>\n
The photo taken by a doctor shows 24-year-old Tawy holding Wahun, 67, after they were both given a vaccine dose.<\/p>\n
They had to walk for hours through the woods to reach the vaccination site.<\/p>\n
Official figures say 853 indigenous people have died from Covid-19, but indigenous rights groups say the number is much higher.<\/p>\n
A poll by Apib, a Brazilian NGO, said 1,000 indigenous people had died between March 2020 and March 2021 alone.<\/p>\n
Tawy and Wahu belong to the indigenous Zo’e community, which has about 325 members.<\/p>\n
They live in isolation in dozens of villages in an area equal to 1.2 million football fields in the northern state of Par\u00e1.<\/p>\n
Erik Jennings Sim\u00f5es, the doctor who took the picture said Wahu could barely see and walk with difficulty due to chronic urinary problems.<\/p>\n
He estimated that Tawy held his father on his back for six hours.<\/p>\n
“It was a very nice demonstration of the relationship between them<\/em>“Dr Sim\u00f5e told BBC News Brasil.<\/p>\n The photo was taken in January 2021, at the start of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in Brazil, one of the most hit countries in the world by the pandemic.<\/p>\n But Dr Sim\u00f5e shared it on Instagram only on January 1 this year, to send a “positive message at the beginning of the new year \u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n top channel
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