The Nouvelliste | In 2022 a Rio carnival without Covid restrictions, promises the mayor

The mayor of Rio promised on Sunday to do everything for a 2022 edition of the carnival without social distancing, counting on an anti-Covid vaccination which will then be in place, after a 2021 edition canceled due to a pandemic. “Who will stay to respect the distancing at the carnival? It is ridiculous to ask for a meter of distance”, declared Eduardo Paes during a public intervention in Rio. “By November we will be vaccinating the entire population of Rio de Janeiro with the two doses … From then on we will probably have no more restrictions and we will surely have the carnival, one of the biggest carnivals that we will have, without restrictions, “he said. The city of nearly 7 million inhabitants alone has more than 34,000 deaths and 480,000 cases since the start of the pandemic, which has hit Brazil hard, the second most affected country after the United States with nearly 600,000 dead . Rio has already vaccinated 99.2% of those over 12 with one dose and 65.9% with two.