"Covid-19 report on mined regions in the Rio Doce Basin (MG)", April 2021

...The report points to the relationship between the Federal Government decree, which classified mining as an essential activity at the beginning of the pandemic, amidst protective measures such as lockdowns and social distancing, as an important disseminator of Covid-19.

"The data presented in this final report is an important tool for political and legal advocacy for residents and managers of mined municipalities, since the failure to halt mining in the pandemic context, under the pretext of its supposed essentiality, has led to the overloading of local health systems, illnesses and deaths among workers in the mining sector, their families and other people who live with them," says one of the authors of the research, Luiz Paulo Siqueira.

Three major regions were analyzed: the Doce River basin and surroundings, the region of Serra do Caraça and the microregions of Itabira and Ouro Preto...

Download the report here (in Portuguese).

The study can also be accessed (in Portuguese) at the sites of the Movement for Popular Sovereignty in Mining (MAM) and the Margarida Alves Collective.