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Gloria Maria cleans the shore of an unusually empty Copacabana beach backdropped by the Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, March 26, 2020, as people stay indoors to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus. The 41-year-old city worker said that in her 10 years of work cleaning the beach, she never saw an empty beach on a sunny Thursday. "It's terrible, people are dying in Europe due this virus," she added. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Gloria Maria cleans the shore of an unusually empty Copacabana beach backdropped by the Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, March 26, 2020, as people stay indoors to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus. The 41-year-old city worker said that in her 10 years of work cleaning the beach, she never saw an empty beach on a sunny Thursday. "It's terrible, people are dying in Europe due this virus," she added. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

March 30, 2020

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Brazilian pews become trenches in fight against quarantine
March 30, 2020 10:03 p.m.

Brazilian pews become trenches in fight against quarantine

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Like every Sunday, Brazilian Pastor Silas Malafaia took the stage of his Pentecostal temple in a middle-class Rio de Janeiro neighborhood. But this week, he wore a T-shirt instead of a blazer and, behind the three cameras broadcasting to his legion of YouTube followers, were thousands of empty seats.