General view of an airplane on display during a 2022 FIFA World Cup event in Belo Horizonte, Brazil November 19, 2022. REUTERS/Washington Alves
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil faces a new wave of COVID cases just as the soccer-crazed nation is gathering en masse to follow the World Cup, with new coronavirus sub-variants and delayed vaccine boosters raising alarms among public health specialists.
On World Cup game days, many Brazilians get time off…