Evangelical missionaries are spreading fake news about COVID-19 and vaccination to indigenous communities in Brazil. the vaccination program for indigenous communities (although very slow) has already started. 
Indigenous communities are considered a priority group in vaccination against COVID-19 in Brazil
But due to the influence of missionaries some public health agents are facing hostility and even threats from some communities.
Like the Jamamadi people, they say they would only accept health teams into the village if Stuart Campbell an North-American missionary, from the Greene Baptist Church participated in the action.
The local authorities would’ve negotiated with the missionary and promised the indigenous people that he would accompany the vaccination action, but, after last-minute clashes, his presence on the team would have been canceled. The Jamamadi revolted and the situation worsened.
Problems between local authorities and indigenous because of Campbell are no news. In 2018, the missionary was expelled from the region by authorities after having illegally entered the land of the isolated Indians of the Hi-Merimã ethnicity, which is close to the Jamamadi.
In Brazil, indigenous communities have the right to remain isolated. It is a law instituted in 1987, in the midst of the drafting of the new Constitution, which recognized a series of other rights previously denied.
According to the Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health (Sesai), of the Ministry of Health, until January 41,251 cases of the disease were confirmed among the indigenous, with 541 deaths.
The official numbers, which does not consider those who live outside indigenous territories, does not reflect the reality of the pandemic, according an indigenous organizations, pointing out that the number would, in fact, be 3x higher.
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