UFC bantamweight Anderson dos Santos joined dozens of martial arts practitioners protesting in front of the Legislative Assembly of Sao Paulo to ask for the state to re-open gyms despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Sao Paulo, a city of 12.8 million people, has seen 1,345 of 3,313 of the deaths related to COVID-19 in Brazil (40.6 percent) and 16,740 of the 49,492 confirmed cases (33.8 percent) as of Thursday. On the same day, as 407 people lost their battle against coronavirus in Brazil, a new record in the country, almost 100 fighters and trainers requested governor Joao Doria to allow gyms to open.