The report "Covid-19 in mined regions in the Rio Doce Basin (MG)" (Covid-19 em regiões mineradas na Bacia do Rio Doce (MG)), a publication produced collectively by the Movement for Popular Sovereignty in Mining (MAM), the Margarida Alves Popular Consultancy Collective and the International Articulation of People Affected by Vale (AIAAV), with support of the German cooperation agency Misereor and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), based on official data from the Minas Gerais State Health Secretariat (SES-MG) and city halls of the Serra do Caraça region, shows that in territories where there is mining, the numbers of contamination by Covid-19 were higher than in non-mined territories.

We invited Vale to respond and they did.