Rio de Janeiro’s carnival, a glittering, sequin-studded festival of the flesh, exploded back to life yesterday with the first famed samba school parades since Covid-19 hit Brazil.
Celebrations kicked off with colorful floats and flamboyant dancers as the city’s top samba schools began strutting their stuff late Friday – the first evening of the two-night spectacle.
After two long years of face masks, social-distancing and death, a sparkling sea of dancers, drummers and multi-storey floats reclaimed the ‘Sambadrome’.
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