RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Samba schools in Rio de Janeiro decided on Thursday to delay Brazil's most famous Carnival parade that would normally have been held in February 2021, as the country ...

Brazil is among the countries hit hardest by COVID-19, with over 4.6 million confirmed cases Rio de Janeiro has suspended its Carnival parade for the first time in over a century as coronavirus cases ...

On February 25, 2020—just as the final Carnaval celebrations in Rio de Janeiro were coming to a close—the first case of Coronavirus was confirmed in São Paulo, 270 miles south of the Sambadrome ...

A cloud of uncertainty that has hung over Rio de Janeiro throughout the coronavirus pandemic has been lifted, but gloom remains — the annual Carnival parade of flamboyant samba schools won’t be held ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - It will not be possible to host carnival celebrations in July, Rio de Janeiro's new mayor said on Thursday, as Brazil's second wave of coronavirus infections gathers ...