Data from the Planning and Management Secretariat of the Government of Pernambuco show that 824 cases of COVID-19 have already been confirmed in Jaboatão dos Guararapes and that peripheral communities in the city such as Jardim Piedade, Espinhaço da Gata and Dom Helder have alarming numbers of confirmed cases of the disease. .
By Débora Aguiar *
In its update on May 14, the Seplag-PE map reported, based on data provided by the Ministry of Health, that Brazil reached the mark of 177,589 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 12,400 deaths.
Pernambuco is in a phase of uncontrolled acceleration of the disease. The peak of the pandemic in the state, scheduled for April, should happen in May and June. Jaboatão dos Guararapes currently has a 15% lethality rate for the virus, one of the highest in the metropolitan region of Recife. Of the infected patients, 824 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed and 132 people died.
From peripheral locations within a radius of 30 meters from the exact location where COVID-19 patients are located in forty in the neighborhoods: Piedade, Candeias and Barra de Jangada. The numbers of patients in quarantine on the outskirts of Vila do Espinhaço da Gata in Loreto stand out - with 11 confirmed cases; Jardim Piedade - with 35 confirmed cases; Cajueiro Seco - with 48 confirmed cases and Dom Hélder - with 13. Jaboatão dos Guararapes does not have available beds and has not yet presented specific proposals to combat COVID-19 in its peripheries.
On Saturday (16), Pernambuco starts the Lockdown decree in Recife, Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Camaragibe and São Lourenço da Mata and Olinda , five of the cities with the highest numbers of cases of COVID-19. The numbers presented based on data from the Ministry of Health show the lack of strategies and availability of resources to fight the disease both in the outskirts of the municipality of Jaboatão dos Guararapes and in the rest of the State and in Brazil as a whole.
Jaboatão is just one among several northeastern cities with peripheries in a situation of extreme social vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pernambuco.
Even with the “efforts” of the State to follow the instructions of the World Health Organization (WHO) betting on the decree of May 11, with the “Lockdown” agreement (total isolation) as a measure of prevention and protection against COVID-19 in Recife and in four other cities in Pernambuco (including Jaboatão dos Guararapes), there are still several factors for the periphery that make confinement difficult, such as the precarious living conditions of the population living in the periphery (mostly black), lack of public services such as Daily water supply and garbage collection. Just like the countless speeches that one should go back to work in order not to lose their job , that the new coronavirus is not such a serious problem or that COVID-19 is just a “little flu” reproduced by the current Brazilian Government, has not contributed with access to information and strategies to reverberate quality content through poor and peripheral Brazilian neighborhoods.
With the Lockdown decree, we fear the absence of the State that is only present daily within our favelas in the lack of water that occurs from the hinterland to the metropolitan region of Recife, in the delay in garbage collection to the point that there are piles of garbage on every corner , and in many places it is still not done.
We miss the State in the absence of quality public equipment and in the genocidal violence that has always tried to kill our black bodies, favela residents and natives, which is still blatant and extremely naturalized today.
“I don't want to focus
of the coronavirus
I just woke up thinking
Here with me
In so many deaths that existed
for lack of breath
I don't want to focus
of the coronavirus
But here we have machines that kill more than that.
They wear uniforms, they enter alleys
already killed some friends
And now so many people experiencing it
this shortness of breath
like that animal
Eric Garner
In the United States
"I can not breath"
He screamed in his last breath
What about Pedro Gonzaga?
Extra! Extra!
No breathing in a tie
And who now so many people would die
unable to breathe
It hurts but it's worth remembering
That even after the pandemic
My people have a guarantee
There will always be for our body
A suffocation machine.”
Priscila Ferraz**
We, from Coletivo Jardim Resistência , in partnership with human rights activists, community leaders and peripheral residents who are at the forefront not only of the risks, but mainly of the fight against the new coronavirus and its social consequences, ask for attention and highlight the lack of return to requests for support made through official letters and complaints to public managers made in Jaboatão dos Guararapes and in the state of Pernambuco so that we can continue to make actions feasible in our communities.
( • ) COLLECTIVE GARDEN RESISTANCE
The Coletivo Jardim Resistência assists mothers in the outskirts of Jardim Piedade and Vila Espinhaço da Gata, occupying a chair in the secretariat of the Association of Residents of Jardim Piedade. Participates in the construction of the Pernambuco Social Movements Observatory, collectively building, together with black and peripheral social movements and institutions, strategic communication actions in the favela with sound bikes and groups on social networks (WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook) , monitoring 150 families and providing basic food aid, accompanied by personal hygiene and cleaning items , giving preference to families whose female mothers are heads of household and elderly people who are in a situation of social vulnerability in 26 peripheral communities of Jaboatão dos Guararapes.
It is also necessary that both civil and private society and funding institutions understand the need to raise funds and partnerships that make our actions possible, which, although basic, are essential to momentarily support the livelihood of these families, collaborating so that they can, in addition to to feed them, comply with the guidelines for social distancing, fundamental in preventing the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
( • ) SUPPORT THE ACTIONS OF THE JARDIM RESISTANCE COLLECTIVE
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@debora. aguiar2020
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Caixa Econômica Federal
Agency: 1580
Account: 013
Account No.: 00055247-9
Rosileide Cordeiro Barboza
CPF: 045.258.014-50
Here we leave a link for contact with other initiatives by peripheral human rights activists, collectives and peripheral religious institutions that are also organizing actions to combat COVID-19 in the peripheries of the metropolitan region of Recife:
Collective Favela LGBTQ+
Biatriz Santos
Ibura more Culture
Camarás slums
Collective of Feminist Mothers Ranusia Alves
Favela News - PE
Sarah Rodrigues
Ilê Axé Oxum Bakundê
Tânia Nascimento
Axé Congonhal
Yane Mendes
Wellington Brito
Ingrid Farias
Cicero Lima
Speak Out Loud
Network of black women from Pernambuco
slum fruit
Free School of Harm Reduction
riot network
Marginal Poets of Pernambuco
National Network of Anti-Prohibitionist Feminists
bread and ink
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*Débora Aguiar is from the favela, founder of the Ranusia Alves Feminist Mothers Collective , Anti-Prohibitionist Mother and member of the Jardim Resistência Collective .
** Priscila Ferraz was raised in Jardim Piedade and current resident of Curado I, West Zone, Psychology student, mother and marginal poet, brings in her verses themes about mental health, religious intolerance and the protagonism of peripheral black women.
Photo by Priscilla Melo , resident of Alto do Pascoal - Recife, black woman and photographer wherever she goes.
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