As plans by Indonesia's president to build a $32 billion new capital city on Borneo island slowly start to take shape, villagers who belong to the indigenous Balik tribe have seen a rapid transformation in their once sleepy forest backwater.

RIO DE JANEIRO - The first to die was his aunt. Then his cousin. Then another cousin, and his uncle, and his 83-year-old grandfather, who lived his final hours waiting for a ventilator. And then the virus came for his father, whom Edney Samias could coax from the Amazon forest only by telling him it would kill him, too, if he didn't get to the city in time.