{"id":17143,"date":"2020-08-28T19:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17143"},"modified":"2020-08-28T19:13:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:43:53","slug":"five-members-of-great-andaman-tribe-test-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/five-members-of-great-andaman-tribe-test-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Five members of Great Andaman tribe test positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Survival International has called for urgent action following reports that at least five members of the Great Andamanese tribe have tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Great Andamanese: <\/strong>They are an indigenous people of the Great Andaman archipelago in the Andaman Islands.They are classified as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group(PVTG).<\/li><li><strong>Language: <\/strong>They speak Jeru dialect among themselves and their number stands at just 74.<\/li><li><strong>PVTGs in Andaman: <\/strong>The five PVTGS residing in Andamans are Great Andamanese, Jarwas, Onges, Shompens and North Sentinelese.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Survival International: <\/strong>It<strong> <\/strong>is a human rights organisation formed in 1969 that campaigns for the rights of indigenous and\/or tribal peoples and uncontacted peoples.<\/li><li><strong>Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups(PVTGs)<\/strong>: It is a government of India classification created with the purpose of enabling improvement in the conditions of certain communities with particularly low development indices.<ul><li><strong>Criteria for identification of PVTGs: a) <\/strong>Pre-agricultural level of technology <strong>b) <\/strong>Low level of literacy <strong>c) <\/strong>Economic backwardness and <strong>d) <\/strong>declining or stagnant population.<\/li><li>75 tribal groups have been categorized as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups(PVTGs).They reside in 18 States and Union Territory of Andaman &amp; Nicobar Island.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Survival International has called for urgent action following reports that at least five members of the Great Andamanese tribe have tested positive for Covid-19. Facts: Great Andamanese: They are an indigenous people of the Great Andaman archipelago in the Andaman Islands.They are classified as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group(PVTG). Language: They speak Jeru dialect among&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/five-members-of-great-andaman-tribe-test-positive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five members of Great Andaman tribe test positive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1087,2163],"class_list":["post-17143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-covid-19","tag-great-andaman-tribe","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704574265},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}