1.17m tourists, Zero cases of Zika

Rio received 1.17 million tourists during the Olympic Games, including 410,000 foreigners, and zero cases of Zika were reported, Rio mayor Eduardo Paes announced. Giving out figures at a press conference, Paes said that for the two weeks of the Games, Rio saw a hotel occupancy rate of 94 per cent and each tourist spent an average of 424.6 reais ($131.7) a day. The United States provided most of the foreign tourists (17%).