Brazil's Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo postpone official Carnival parade to April
RIO DE JANEIRO: The Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo announced on Friday (Jan 21) they are postponing colourful Carnival parades to the end of April, due to an increase in COVID-19 cases as Omicron spreads through the country.
Both cities had already cancelled their Carnival street
parties, but were still considering having their samba school parades at the
end of February. They will now hold the event in late-April, the two cities
said in a joint statement.
"Unfortunately we do not have the sanitary conditions
to hold Carnival on the date that was planned," Rio's Health Secretary
Daniel Soranz told journalists.
Brazil is currently experiencing its peak of new COVID-19
cases, with an average of almost 120,000 cases daily in the last seven days,
due to the advance of Omicron.
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