Rio cancels its carnival street parties

[Judi Lynn]

Thursday, January 6, 2022


RIO DE JANEIRO.- While Rio de Janeiro’s renowned Carnival parade will go on, the city will cancel its street parties, the mayor said Tuesday, to the dismay of millions of revelers who pour into the city’s public spaces every year to celebrate and wash away any sorrows in samba, sweat and beer.

The freewheeling public parties “won’t be possible,” Mayor Eduardo Paes said at a news conference Tuesday. “It’s been decided: There won’t be street Carnival in the tradition of the past.”

Paes said the official parade, in which samba groups put on elaborately choreographed shows in an area flanked by bleachers that seat 56,000 people, would be held, but with some health precautions.

But Cariocas, as Rio residents are known, were devastated.

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1. I went to Carnival in Salvador, Brazil

and have never been so tightly packed in my life. It went on and on and on. I can see how Covid would be bad there, with or without masks. I think Carnival in Nice, France may be getting canceled too. Their Covid cases are at their highest levels.