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In 2020 the famous Rio de Janeiro Carnival took place for the last time as usual.
However, a move of the samba schools should also be made possible in 2022
Photo: Buda Mendes / Getty Images
Due to the sharp rise in the number of corona infections, the city of Rio de Janeiro has canceled the famous street carnival.
The festival should take place from February 25th to March 1st.
It has now been canceled for the second year in a row.
According to the city administration, the Carnival in Rio attracted around seven million people to the streets when it was last held in 2020.
Mayor Eduardo Paes announced the decision after meeting representatives of carnival groups on social media.
Paes said that the carnival in the form it had taken before the pandemic until 2020 "will not take place in 2022 either".
Before that, he had met with representatives of the music bands that organize the celebrations.
The reason given was that admission controls and compliance with other corona measures at the street carnival were practically impossible.
The famous parade of the samba schools with around 70,000 spectators, however, should continue to take place.
There controls to protect against infection are easier to implement, said Paes.
The appearance of the highly contagious omicron variant in connection with the Christmas and New Year meetings has led to a surge in Covid-19 cases in Rio.
While only 21 new infections were registered on December 14, two weeks later there were 458. The vaccination rate in Rio de Janeiro is high: four out of five Rio residents have already received two doses of vaccine against the virus.
With around 620,000 corona deaths, Brazil is the country with the second highest number of deaths from the pandemic worldwide.
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