SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia—Eduardo Paes, mayor of Rio de Janeiro, announced the cancellation of the city’s famous Carnival street festival during a Jan. 4 online conference, making it the second year in a row that the city has canceled its highly-anticipated celebration.
Rio de Janeiro is the 18th of 27 Brazilian capitals to call off its Carnival celebrations in 2022 because of a surge in CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus cases.
