The world-famous Carnival of Rio de Janeiro scheduled for February next year has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“We have come to the conclusion that the event should be postponed,” said Georges Castaneira, president of the Rio de Janeiro Independent School League (LIESA), the event’s organizer. “It simply came to our notice then. Samba schools will not have the time or financial and organizational resources to be ready. ”
The event attracts millions of tourists from Brazil and around the world every year.
In July, São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, postponed next year’s carnival.
In Brazil, a country of 210 million people, 4.7 million people have been infected with the coronavirus, and the number of Covid-19-related deaths has reached 140,000.
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