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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 8 sepTember 2020
Quarantine-weary Brazilians head to beaches despite warnings

By MARCELO SILVA DE waldo Cruz Foundation,
SOUSA or Fiocruz, warned that if
Associated Press Brazilians are negligent the
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — country could see a re-
Suellen de Souza could no peat of what happened in
longer endure the confine- Europe, especially Spain,
ment. After six months of where second waves of
precautions, the Brazilian new cases were seen.
nursing technician decided "Spain controlled the pan-
that Sunday would be her demic, but there were
first day at the beach since new outbreaks when many
the pandemic began. young people were negli-
"This week it was very hot ... gent during the summer,"
the truth is I really wanted Canto said. If Brazil's "popu-
to come" to the beach, lation is not conscientious
said the 21-year-old at and continues to frequent
Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema beaches and bars without
beach, which is technically precautions, it might mirror
still closed to sun-bathers this."
though few respect the Geraldo Tadeu, political
prohibition and authorities scientist and coordinator of
seldom enforce it. the Center for Studies and
Under a burning midday Research on Democracy,
sun, she had difficulty find- People enjoy the Ipanema beach amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, said the lack of coordina-
ing an empty space in the Sunday, Sept.6, 2020. tion among levels of gov-
sand as thousands crowd- Associated Press ernment in the COVID-19
ed the famed beach, lockdown measures and go out," she said. The same confirmed infections and fight demoralized many
which was dotted with pressed for a return to nor- scenario is playing out in 126,000 deaths from the Brazilians. "After six months,
hundreds of umbrellas mal life from the beginning, Sao Paulo, Brazil's worst- virus, Brazil has the second no one can stand to stay
and families sunning them- famously calling the novel hit state with more than highest totals in both fig- indoors seeing how there
selves. Beach-goers were coronavirus a "little flu." 855,000 confirmed infec- ures behind only the United are no clear guidelines for
packed close together with "It is like a rain that is going tions and 31,000 deaths. States. In recent weeks, Lat- fighting the virus," said Ta-
few wearing face masks. to reach you," Bolsonaro Thousands of residents took in America's largest country deu. "As there is no serious
With tentative signs the said of the virus on July 7, advantage of the long has left a new case number policy, the population is ex-
coronavirus pandemic is the day he confirmed his weekend to travel to the plateau that had dragged hausted. People head out
easing, Brazilians exhaust- own infection from which coast. on from almost three to the streets when they see
ed with quarantine mea- he has since recovered. "If you stay indoors for a months and started seeing that others are not comply-
sures and social distancing In Rio, recommendations long time, you will go crazy. a reduction in the number ing and the effort of staying
are increasingly relaxing by health experts to remain I was like that. The moment of new confirmed cases. home is no longer worth it."
precautions and flood- isolated are being chal- I found out the beach was But with an average of 820 More than 6 months after
ing beaches as if the pan- lenged even by people like open, I decided to come," deaths per day, its numbers the start of the pandemic,
demic were over. They are Souza, a nursing technician said Josy Santos, a 26-year- are still considered high by Brazilians seem increasingly
being urged to do so - and who worked in a field hospi- old teacher who spent the health experts. relaxed about taking pre-
violate the recommenda- tal for coronavirus patients. day in Guarujá, a seaside Patricia Canto, a pulmo- cautions to fight the virus'
tions of health experts - by "The coronavirus is being resort an hour from Sao nologist at Brazil's premier spread. Some attribute this
President Jair Bolsonaro, controlled a little more, Paulo. biomedical research and to Bolsonario's denial rheto-
who has resisted many that gave me security to With more than 4,100,000 development lab, the Os- ric. q

U.S. Navy searches for missing Nimitz

sailor in Arabian Sea

DUBAI, United Arab Emir- Bahrain-based 5th Fleet. placed the aircraft carrier
ates (AP) — The U.S. Navy That was after an extensive USS Dwight D. Eisenhower,
searched through the night search of the Nimitz, Amer- which had spent months in
into Monday morning for ica's oldest carrier in active the Arabian Sea on its de-
a sailor who went missing service that carries some ployment that saw the car-
from the aircraft carrier USS 5,000 sailors and Marines. rier break the Navy's previ-
Nimitz during its patrol of The Nimitz, the guided- ous at-sea record. Navy
the northern Arabian Sea missile cruiser USS Princeton officials have limited port
amid tensions with Iran. and other 5th Fleet person- calls due to the ongoing
The crew aboard the Nim- nel continued their search coronavirus pandemic. In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, an MH-60R Seahawk
itz sounded a "man over- on Monday, Rebarich said. The Nimitz's arrival in the helicopter takes off from the USS Nimitz in the Arabian Sea on
board" alert at 6:47 p.m. on She declined to identify the Mideast saw Iran conduct Aug. 27, 2020.
Sunday, after being unable missing sailor, citing Navy a live-fire drill targeting a Associated Press
to find the sailor aboard policy. mockup aircraft carrier re- the U.S. after a series of es- Tehran responded to that
the nuclear-powered air- The Nimitz, whose home- sembling it. calating incidents last year strike by firing ballistic mis-
craft carrier, said Cmdr. Re- port is Bremerton, Washing- The drill underlined the lin- led to an American drone siles that wounded doz-
becca Rebarich, a spokes- ton, has been in the Arabi- gering threat of military strike that killed a top Ira- ens of American forces in
woman for the U.S. Navy's an Sea since late July. It re- conflict between Iran and nian general in Baghdad. Iraq.q