Brazil celebrates the return of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival

More than 46m people joined this year’s Carnival celebrations, the first to take place without restrictions since the pandemic

Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous carnival celebrations has returned in its full-scale technicolour splendour for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The samba was playing, revellers were dancing and throughout the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, parties and pageantry filled the streets,” said the Associated Press, as an estimated 46m people from around the world descended on Brazil to join in the week-long festivities, which also take place in other cities such as Salvador, Recife and Sao Paulo.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.