A woman sits on the sand at Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Firemen began blaring recordings that urge beachgoers to stay home a a measure to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, on Monday, one day before Rio's Gov. Wilson Witzel decreed a state of emergency. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
March 17, 2020
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March 17, 2020 10 p.m.
Rio's Christ statue closes and state of emergency decreed
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue, which appears to balance improbably atop Corcovado mountain, has withstood the worst of what the elements could muster for nearly nine decades. Now it, too, is succumbing to the outbreak of the new coronavirus.