BRAZIL’S Supreme Court has ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to implement parts of a Bill to protect indigenous peoples from Covid-19 that he previously vetoed.

On Wednesday Judge Luis Roberto Barroso said the government must instal health checkpoints for isolated indigenous villages and draft and implement a plan to remove people illegally present in indigenous areas such as illicit gold miners or loggers. 

Removal of operations linked to crimes like deforestation and illegal extraction is an “imperative measure,” he said.