Rio De Janerio: Famous festival of Brazil has been delayed because of the pandemic that has surrounded the country. Rio de Janeiro's world-famous carnival parades became the latest fatality of the coronavirus pandemic as officials announced they were continually delaying the February 2021 edition, with Brazil still reeling from Covid-19. Rio's fair, the world's biggest, is an extended festival of tightly packed masses dancing through the streets and gathering to the city's iconic "Sambadrome" for massive parades starring scantily clad dancers, small armies of drummers and all-night partying at close quarters.

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The grand carnival draws millions of tourists from around Brazil and the world to the beachside city each year. The city's elite samba schools, which typically spend the entire year preparing their elaborate parades, had said in July it would be difficult to organize the event for February 2021 if there were still no reality of a vaccine for the new coronavirus by late September. Meeting again to evaluate the situation, "we came to the conclusion that the event had to be postponed," stated Jorge Castanheira, the president of the group that organizes the annual parades, the Independent League of Samba Schools of Rio de Janeiro (LIESA).

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In actuality, "carnival" includes numerous events, from the elite samba school parade contest organized by LIESA to less-formal "blocos," or street parties. Consideration had been arising that authorities would have to cancel or postpone the carnival in 2021, given that Brazil is the country with the second-highest death toll in the pandemic, after the United States, and is still struggling to bring the virus under control. Brazil has registered 4.7 million infections and nearly 140,000 deaths from Covid-19.

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