'Alarm bells': Brazil's COVID-19 chaos sparks fear, countermeasures from neighbors


  • World
  • Thursday, 25 Mar 2021

Brazilian Elisabete Tunes Arpino, 65, who lives in the Brazilian city Santana do Livramento receives a dose of the Sinovac's CoronaVac coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, at the Comeri hospital in Rivera, Uruguay March 19, 2021. Picture taken March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Diego Vara

MONTEVIDEO/BUENOS AIRES/ASUNCION (Reuters) - When the Copa America basketball tournament got underway last month in the midst of a pandemic, the hosts in Cali, Colombia took no chances.

Players and staff from participating men's national teams from around Latin America lived in a local "bubble" without contact with outsiders; all were tested regularly for COVID-19.

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