In 2020, wildfires in the Pantanal, the world’s largest continuous tropical wetland, destroyed almost one-third of this biome. In addition to this catastrophic situation, the world faced an even more serious threat due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we discussed the impact of the 2020 fires and the COVID-19 pandemic in the public health, mainly in populations living in a situation of vulnerability such as indigenous and riverine peoples. It is necessary to develop region-specific policies to ensure the effectiveness of disaster risk management.

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干旱和火灾的复合影响是否会导致潘塔纳尔湿地 COVID-19 病例增加？

2020 年，世界上最大的连续热带湿地潘塔纳尔湿地发生的野火摧毁了该生物群落的近三分之一。除了这种灾难性的情况外，世界还因新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 大流行而面临更为严重的威胁。在这里，我们讨论了 2020 年火灾和 COVID-19 大流行对公共卫生的影响，主要是对土著人民和河流沿岸人民等生活脆弱的人群的影响。有必要制定因地制宜的政策，确保灾害风险管理的有效性。