The municipal secretary of Health of Rio de Janeiro, Daniel Soranz, said this Monday (3), in an interview with CNN, that the city will analyze the epidemiological scenario with the advancement of the Ômicron variant of the coronavirus to define the rules that will be implemented during Carnival.
“We’re going to check if in fact the Ômicron variant will produce a significant increase in cases, if the variant causes more hospitalizations or more deaths than the others. At first, it seems to be a variant that causes much less severe cases than the others”, explained Soranz.
“Anyway, we will be analyzing these numbers throughout the first days of January in order to give the rules that will take place at Carnival”, he continued.
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The Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro, in turn, is studying blocking the street blocks and authorizing only the parades in the Sambódromo da Marquês de Sapucaí with protocols, according to a determination by the anchor of the CNN Daniela Lima.
Governor Cláudio Castro (PL) is consulting on how to communicate what he says is “a decision taken”.
According to information from the policy analyst at CNN Leandro Resende, the state secretary of Health, Alexandre Chieppe, announced that there is still no decision on the street carnival, but that the official opinion will be defined later this month.
Reference: CNN Brasil
