One day after Brazil will be confirmed as host for the next Copa América, after Argentina gave up being an organizer due to the complicated health situation due to the pandemic, the Conmebol, in accordance with the Brazilian Football Confederation and the president Jair Bolsonaro, announced the four venues chosen to contest all the commitments of the South American contest.
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However, despite the speed to designate the stadiums, the news was not well received by all the cities involved. That was the case with Cuiabá, which together with Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Goiania, is one of the selected venues.
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Currently the stadium Pantanal Arena, which was built for the 2014 World Cup Brazil, funites a testing and primary care center for those infected with Covid-19. Given the choice of that stadium as the venue for the Copa América, the activity currently taking place at the facilities it must be suspended five hours before each game.
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This situation, added to the difficult health crisis that affects Brazil due to the coronavirus, which records 16,720,081 positive cases since the start of the pandemic Y 467,706 deaths, generated the discontent of the prefeito of Cuiabá, Emanuel Pinheiro, who in the last hours He spoke out against the holding of the America’s Cup in his city and demanded vaccinations.
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“A show of this size is not advisable in Cuiabá because we do not know how the mobilization of the people for the Copa América will be other than the fact that the matches will be without an audience. We are in a difficult moment, discussing issues of the health of the population “, he assured.
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In addition, he reported that He asked the Government for a massive shipment of 670 thousand doses extra vaccines to accelerate the vaccination of 440,000 inhabitants of Cuiabá. Currently, the city registers more than 90% hospital occupancy by coronavirus.
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“Since they chose Cuiabá for the Copa América quickly between the Government of Mato Grosso, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and the national Government, we want compensation, “he demanded.
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The mayor is politically at odds with the governor of Mato Grosso, Mauro Mendes, who was the one who gave the green light for Cuiabá to be one of the venues, because the Arena Pantanal stadium is administered by the state government.
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Pinheiro acknowledged his fear of the possibility that an important movement of people for the Copa América generate a third wave of Covid-19, as warned by specialists, even the Federal Ministry of Health.
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Cuiabá registers 2,897 deaths and 86,560 infected with Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, while the state of Mato Grosso accumulates more than 410,000 cases and 11,037 deaths.
The matches to be played in Cuiabá
Colombia-Ecuador
Chile-Bolivia
Uruguay-Chile
Bolivia-Uruguay
Bolivia-Argentina.
