<p>As the world continues to deal with the Covid-19 crisis, a picture of an indigenous man carrying his father on his back to the Covid-19 vaccination centre in challenging circumstances in Brazil is going viral on social media.</p>
<p>The father-son duo, identified as Wahu and Tawy Zo&eacute;, hail from a tribal community living in one of the remotest areas in the Brazilian Amazon.</p>
<p>The heartwarming pic was shared by Dr Erik Jennings Sim&otilde;es on Instagram. Addressing the challenges of getting vaccines in most backward societies, Dr Sim&otilde;es wrote, &ldquo;Tawy carried his father for 6 hours through a forest with hills, streams and obstacles to our base.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>According to <strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-59984857" rel="nofollow">BBC News Brasil</a></strong>, the family belongs to the Zo&rsquo;&eacute; indigenous community, who live in relative isolation across dozens of villages. Dr Sim&otilde;es told the BBC that 67-year-old Wahu had chronic urinary problems and because of that could hardly see anything and walked with difficulty.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It was a very beautiful demonstration of the lovely relationship between them," added Dr Sim&otilde;es. Despite this pic being from 2021, Dr Sim&otilde;es shared it only on January 2 to send a "positive message".</p>
<p>Wahu, however, passed away in September 2021 due to unknown reasons.</p>

The father-son duo have been identified as Wahu and Tawy Zoé. They hail from a tribal community living in one of the remotest areas in the Brazilian Amazon

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