More than a million Brazilians have been diagnosed with COVID-19, many of them indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest.

Lisley Lemos, a biologist working in the Amazon rainforest, told Zenger the pandemic is hitting Tefé, where she lives, very hard.

Brazilian TV personality Maria Paula Fidalgo, who will help host Sunday’s online event, told Zenger she got involved thanks to “Game of Thrones” actress Oona Chaplin, who is also taking part in the event.

The Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, stretches across eight South American countries and has lost 17% of its forest cover in the last 50 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

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