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Rio samba schools start sewing scrubs in coronavirus effort

by Associated Press
| April 8, 2020 12:03 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s samba schools usually spend the year furiously sewing costumes for the city's blowout Carnival celebration. Now, nimble fingers are working to protect lives instead, making medial outfits for hospital workers who face a surge of coronavirus patients.

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