RIO DE JANEIRO: Sunbathers wanting to visit Rio de Janeiro's famous beaches, despite Brazil's raging Covid-19 epidemic, could soon be able to reserve socially-distant sand space through a mobile app, the city's mayor said on Aug 10.
Rio's beaches currently have a hodgepodge of sanitary restrictions in place. Visitors and cariocas, as local residents are known, can swim and practise individual sports on the sand during the week. But team sports can only be played Monday through Friday. Merchants can sell beverages, but not alcoholic ones.