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Brazil’s Soccer Stadiums May Be Used as Field Hospitals during Covid-19 Crisis

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – With soccer season in the country suspended until further notice, more than half of Brazil’s twenty top tier professional teams have made their stadiums available to health officials to be used as hospitals and health care centers, as authorities predict a surge in victims of the Covid-19 contagion.

"In this grim moment, I wanted to invite our great Red and Black nation to renew hope and work for better days. Let us take care of our elders, help those who need it most," Rio de Janeiro’s Flamengo club president, Rodolfo Landim, wrote in . . .

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