The month of April 2020, in the State of Maranhão, inaugurates the epidemiological bulletins of cases of the new coronavirus, giving rise to the notifications that started on February 28th. These bulletins are released by the State Department of Health and by the municipal health departments that make available to the public the number of cases by municipalities, their evolution and other statistical data. In the first bulletin presented by the State, 71 confirmed cases and one death were notified in the municipalities of São Luís, Imperatriz and Açailândia. At the end of the month, positive cases jumped to 3,506 with 204 deaths in 85 municipalities. But what about data on indigenous peoples? That was the question that haunted us. Concerned about how this epidemic would impact indigenous peoples in Maranhão, we decided to create the Mururu collective to monitor the expansion of Covid-19 cases in the country's historically most vulnerable population. When we started analyzing the data, on May 23, there were roughly four sources of statistical information about the new coronavirus that directly or indirectly affected the indigenous lands and territories in Maranhão. The bulletins: federal, state, municipal, and that of indigenous and indigenous organizations.

The first observation we had was that, in fact, in none of the official government data was there specific information about indigenous peoples in Maranhão. That is why we decided to face this debate and, with that, seek to expand efforts to give visibility to the confrontation of the new coronavirus among indigenous peoples in Maranhão. We seek to add efforts to organizations that support the indigenous cause and to indigenous organizations that, despite the general data reported by SESAI, started the process of giving an identity to these reported numbers. To start putting together the puzzle, we initially collected the data from the Maranhão State Health Department and with the help of the cartographic bases of IBGE and Funai, we set up the first map (Cases of COVID-19 by Notification Municipality, 05/23/2020). It is possible to visualize the municipalities that affect indigenous lands and territories and to observe by color the proportion of notified cases of Coronavirus in each of these municipalities. From it we envision adding new data and analysis. For this, we count on the participation of everyone who wants and can help the indigenous peoples in Maranhão.