Rio de Janeiro opens beaches amid high Covid-19 infections
Bars, restaurants and gyms are now allowed to operate while public hospitals are at 70% capacity
03 July 2020 - 10:38
Rio de Janeiro — In Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, residents could once again run along the beaches and drink a chilled coconut water at the kiosks that line the sand, as Brazil’s second city tried to return to some normality despite a heavy coronavirus death toll.
Cariocas, as Rio’s inhabitants are known, went to bars, restaurants and gyms that are now allowed to operate again in the latest stage of reopening that had some experts worried about a new wave of infections. The beaches remained closed for sunbathing, but opened for individual exercise...
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