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Brazil's football clubs offer stadiums to help with coronavirus sick

File photo of the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on June 16, 2019 [COURTESY]

Brazil's top football clubs are handing over their stadiums to allow health authorities to turn them into field hospitals and clinics to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

With football in the country suspended until further notice, more than half the clubs in Brazil's Serie A have given up their stadiums as authorities in densely populated Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro seek to expand hospital capacity to deal with the crisis.

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