The all-night parades by the city's top samba schools Friday and Saturday nights will be the first since February 2020.
RIO DE JANEIRO - After two long years without its frenetic festival of sparkling sequins, sultry samba and towering floats, Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed carnival parades Friday for the first time since COVID-19 hit Brazil.
Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes officially declared the party open Wednesday, handing the key to the city to "King Momo," the symbolic ruler of the festivities. It was a welcome change from last year, when Paes symbolically handed the key to a pair of health workers in white lab coats and surgical masks after announcing carnival had to be canceled because of the pandemic.
Everyone participating in and attending the weekend's parades will be required to present proof of vaccination.The pandemic has left Brazilians full of "saudades" - Portuguese for "longing" - for their beloved carnival, a free-for-all of dancing, singing and partying at close quarters that is essentially the opposite of social distancing."I can't even describe what I'm feeling.
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