Yr-end celebrations on Copacabana Seashore, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on January 1, 2019. – Daniel RAMALHO / AFP
The standard end-of-year social gathering in Rio de Janeiro, which often brings collectively thousands and thousands of spectators on Copacabana seaside to admire the fireworks, has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, introduced on Saturday the city corridor of the vacationer capital of Brazil.
This mannequin of end-of-year social gathering “is not viable in the current scenario of the pandemic, without there being a vaccine”, defined the vacationer workplace of Rio de Janeiro, recalling that town was finding out a potential postponement of the Rio carnival. Town’s vacationer workplace will current to Mayor Marcelo Crivella within the coming days totally different choices for the tip of 12 months social gathering, with out the direct presence of the general public, which will probably be accessible on-line or by tv.
Sao Paulo additionally postpones its occasions
The mayor of Sao Paulo, Bruno Covas, introduced the postponement on Friday sine die of the carnival of the most important metropolis in Brazil because of the coronavirus. The brand new date of the carnival has not been decided however it may very well be “at the end of May or the beginning of July” 2021, he had mentioned. Sao Paulo additionally introduced the cancellation of the tip of 12 months celebrations and that of the LGBTQ + delight parade, one of many largest on the earth, and postponed from July to November the March for Jesus, which additionally attracts thousands and thousands. of individuals.
In Rio, the place a luxurious parade with monumental floats takes place for the carnival that pulls thousands and thousands of vacationers every year, 5 of the primary samba colleges have not too long ago introduced their want to postpone till 2021. They don’t want to carnival till a vaccine has been produced. The vacationer workplace mentioned on this regard that it was awaiting the subsequent meeting of the Unbiased League of Samba Colleges.
Of the 85,238 deaths recorded on Friday in Brazil, a rustic of 212 million inhabitants, 12,654 had been in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil is the second nation most affected by the coronavirus, with some 2.three million folks contaminated because the begin of the pandemic and greater than 85,000 lifeless, in line with official figures.