Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians They enjoyed this Tuesday, February 14, the last official day of the Carnival, with massive parades in the big cities of the country, some of which had to be finished earlier than expected due to high temperatures.
Through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Recife and even Brasilia, the explosion of colors of the costumes once once more mixed with the roar of the music drums from early in the morning.
In Rio, mecca of the Brazilian festival, at 07:00 local time (10:00 GMT) the gathering for the gigantic ‘bloco’ (street troupe) of Ludmilla, one of the fashionable singers of the current Brazilian music scene, began. .
Up to 600 thousand people were expected for the recital of the composer from Rio.
Ludmilla lights up Rio
“It’s time to start dancing here in Rio de Janeiro,” exclaimed the winner of a Latin Grammy in 2022 in the samba/pagode album category for her work Numanice #2.
However, he had to end his presentation earlier than scheduled due to the intense heat, which caused at least thirty ‘foliões’, as partygoers who enjoy the street carnival are called in Brazil, had to receive health care. .
Carnival is over, Ludmilla and Ivete were the biggest at this carnival ???????????? https://t.co/lcc6XbCMKu
— Ludmilla_mundo (@Ludmillamundo1) February 14, 2024
Ludmilla, co-interpreter of international success No_se_ve.mp3 Together with the Argentine Emilia Mernes, he argued that his priority was the “integrity” of his fans and recommended that the next troupe leave later to avoid the heat of the central hours of the day.
For this Tuesday the 14th, maximum temperatures close to 40°C were expected in the Fluminense capital.
Tanker trucks with water to combat the heat
In São Paulo, the most populated city in the country and converted into an important carnival hub in recent years, they tried to combat the high temperatures by spraying water on the crowd from water tankers placed by the Mayor’s Office.
“Temperatures do not let up and are quite high in all regions of Brazil,” warned the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) on its social networks.
Around fifty groups took out this Tuesday, February 14, through the streets of the capital of São Paulo.
Cornucópia Desvairada celebrated cultural diversity with a repertoire in which he combined genres such as forró, maracatu, samba and axé. Pagu, a battery formed only by women, paraded in the center. About 130 were in charge of playing the classics of Brazilian music to the delirium of the public.
In Brasilia, where all the organs of power are located, there was also time for Calango Careta to make the Brazilian capital dance in a familiar atmosphere, amid concern regarding the dengue outbreak.
The Federal District, in a “public health emergency” situation, has an incidence of the disease of 2,286 probable cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and has set up a field hospital to relieve pressure on the hospital network.
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Rio de Janeiro is also in a “state of emergency” due to the advance of infections due to the virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
According to the Ministry of Health, throughout Brazil there are already more than half a million probable cases and 75 confirmed deaths so far this year, which has forced the Government to open an emergency operations center to coordinate actions once morest dengue. with governors and mayors.
However, although Carnival officially ends this Tuesday, February 14 in Brazil, many are willing to extend it until at least Sunday the 18th.
This Ash Wednesday will also be an important day, as the organizers of the Rio Carnival will choose the champion samba school among the dozen that paraded the last two nights at the sambadrome, which turns 40 this year.
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And, in fact, there are groups planned for the next two weekends of February in the main cities of the country and some even for the first days of March, in what in Brazil is known as post-carnival and which brings together thousands of people who resist lowering the curtain on the 2024 Carnival
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