Sao Paulo announced the cancellation of the street carnival due to the increase in covid-19 cases, as Rio de Janeiro and Salvador de Bahia had already done.
The mayor of Sao Paulo announced the cancellation of the street carnival due to the increase in covid-19 cases in Brazil, as Rio de Janeiro and Salvador de Bahia had already done this week.
The Rio de Janeiro carnival will also stop performing for the second consecutive year the traditional parades “de rúa”, as those that take place in the streets of the city are known, which were again suspended due to the covid pandemic -19.
The city of Sao Paulo, the largest metropolis in Latin America with 12 million inhabitants, this year had around 700 ‘blocos’ or musical corsos registered.
“Due to the epidemiological situation, the São Paulo street carnival has been canceled,” informed the mayor of São Paulo, Ricardo Nunes, at a press conference.
No parade on the ‘rúa’
Qualified as “the soul” of the biggest party in Brazil, more than 500 “blocos”, as the bands and troupes that parade for free through the streets of Rio de Janeiro during the event are called, once again saw their dream of giving truncated. life and joy to the carnival, for which, so far, only the majestic parades of the samba schools have been confirmed, which require the purchase of tickets to see them at the Sambadrome.
“(…) the street Carnival, in the model that took place until 2020, will not occur in 2022,” said Mayor Eduardo Paes during a live broadcast he made on social networks.
“The street carnival, by its very nature and by the democratic aspect that it has, makes it impossible to carry out any type of control,” he said.
The same will not happen with the parades of the Sambadrome, which according to the mayor have been maintained up to now, because there it is possible to have “a series of controls”, such as those carried out to enter a stadium to watch a football match, although it remains to be defined which ones and how they will be carried out.
The cancellation of the “rúa carnival” was accepted by the “blocos”, who had agreed to accept the decision made by the Mayor’s Office in this regard.
Paes pointed out that his Secretary of Health had already warned him about the difficulty of carrying out the parades “de rúa” in the city due to the increase in cases of covid-19, apparently due to the circulation of the new omicron variant.
In addition to Rio, Salvador -the capital of Bahia (northeast) – and Sao Paulo that canceled their street carnival, other cities where the “rúa” parties are also famous, such as Recife have not yet defined whether they will finally carry them out. (I)
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