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Rio restarts soccer league next to field hospital for COVID

by Associated Press
| June 19, 2020 12:03 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In a sign of the times, the first professional soccer match in South America in nearly three months was staged in a stadium only meters away from a field hospital for hundreds of patients of COVID-19.

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