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A carnival reveler is watched by public order guards at the &quot;Alter Markt&quot; where normally tens of thousands of revelers dressed in carnival costumes would celebrate the start of the street carnival in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. This year all carnival celebrations are banned due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

A subdued year for Germany’s Carnival, thanks to the virus

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Priestess Laura D'Oya Yalorixa walks in a trance during an Umbanda religious ceremony at the Casa de Caridade Santa Barbara Iansa temple in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. The faithful of the Umbanda religion, brought to America by West African slaves, perform spiritual protection rituals as part of pre-Carnival traditions. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

AP PHOTOS: Afro-Brazilian religion ritual before Carnival

By BRUNA PRADO and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA - Associated Press

Healthcare workers wait for the arrival of elderly people to be vaccinated at a drive-thru vaccination center at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. In a normal year, Rio’s Sambadrome would be preparing for its great moment of the year: the world’s most famous Carnival parade. But a week before what should be the start of Carnival, the pandemic has replaced pageantry. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

With Carnival scrapped, Rio’s Sambadrome hosts vaccinations

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA and LUCAS DUMPHREYS - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, Mondo Kayo parades down Chartres Street during Mardi Gras, in New Orleans. A subdued Carnival season begins Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, after the coronavirus pandemic put an end to the crowd-heavy balls and street parades that draw thousands of people to the city every year. (AP Photo/Rusty Costanza) **FILE**

COVID-19 turns New Orleans dry: Mayor orders bars closed for Mardi Gras

By James Varney - The Washington Times

How Mobile businesses are adapting to paradeless Mardi Gras

By JOHN SHARP and AL.com - Associated Press

FILE - Passengers disembark from the Carnival Sunshine cruise ship Monday, March 16, 2020, in Charleston, S.C. Carnival Corp. said Monday, Jan. 11, 2021 its 2022 cruise bookings are running ahead of 2019 numbers, a good sign that guests will return once the pandemic has eased. The coronavirus has been devastating for the cruise industry, which had expected to welcome 30 million passengers worldwide in 2020. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, file)

Carnival expects 2021 loss but says 2022 bookings are strong

By DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press

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Dr. Wille Baracho takes the temperature of a woman suspected of having COVID-19 as he attends residents inside the Unidos de Padre Miguel samba school in the Vila Vintem slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 24, 2020. Led by this doctor who watched COVID-19 wreak havoc in a hospital ward, the samba school marshaled its considerable energy to fight the pandemic in one of Rio’s most populous slums, by sewing medical gowns and masks for public hospitals, distributing food kits to the needy, doing coronavirus screenings. (AP Photo/Lucas Dumphreys)

How a Brazil samba school shimmied from Carnival to COVID-19

By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Carnival cancels most 2020 US cruises as CDC extends ban

By DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press

Workers from the Vila Isabel samba school make scrubs, for medical workers to wear during the new coronavirus pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Samba schools that a spend all year making Carnival costumes have turned their sewing machines to a different purpose, making scrubs and face masks for medical workers. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Rio samba schools start sewing scrubs in coronavirus effort

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., accompanied by his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders, arrives for a primary night election rally as the crowd cheers in Essex Junction, Vt., Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump says top cruise ship companies stopping trips from US

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In this Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, tourists fiddle with their protective face masks as they take selfies atop Rialto bridge in Venice, Italy. Still reeling from the effects of major flooding just a few months ago, Venice faces a new emergency: the threat of a new virus outbreak across Italy that is scaring international visitors world-wide and hitting the economy hard. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)

Venice faces new threat from virus after reeling from floods

By Renata Brito and Giada Zampano - Associated Press

Israel denounces anti-Semitic trope at Spanish Carnival

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Performers from the Sao Clemente samba school parade on a float during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazilian politicians avoid Carnival as they become targets

By ANNA JEAN KAISER - Associated Press

Investigators' markings are seen near the car that drove into a crowd of people during a carnival procession in Volkmarsen, Germany, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. A man intentionally drove a car into a crowd of people at a Carnival parade in a small town in central Germany, injuring dozens of people including children, officials said Monday. Prosecutors said the driver, a 29-year-old local man, was arrested at the scene of the incident in Volkmarsen, about 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Berlin. (Swen Pfortner/dpa via AP)

Officials: German man drove into Carnival crowd ‘to kill’

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Emergency cars stand next to the scene of the accident with a car that is said to have crashed into a carnival parade in Volkmarsen, central Germany, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. Several people have been injured, according to the police. The driver had been arrested by the police. (Uwe Zucchi/dpa via AP)

German man drives car into Carnival crowd, injures 30

By David Rising and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Performers from the Grande Rio samba school parade during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Rio Carnival schools make plea for end of religious abuse

By DAVID BILLER and MARCELO DE SOUSA - Associated Press

A carnival float depicts a red-faced man yelling in rage, a pistol protruding from his mouth with the word “racism” on the barrel, the slogan “from words come deeds” and a list of the attacks including Hanau at the traditional carnival parade in Duesseldorf, Germany, Monday, Feb 24, 2020. The foolish street spectacles in the carnival centers of Duesseldorf, Mainz and Cologne, watched by hundreds of thousands of people, are the highlights in Germany's carnival season on Rosemonday. (Federico Gambarini/dpa via AP)

German Carnival floats take aim at racism in wake of attack

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Transgender godmother Camila Prins, representing the Colorado do Bras samba school, performs at Carnival in the Sambadrome in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. Prins entered the parade grounds, in a costume of feathers that displayed her sinuous body, fulfilling a dream nearly three decades old. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazilian transgender dancer shatters Carnival parade taboo

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

A police officer works the scene where a man was reportedly hit and killed by a float of the Krewe of Endymion parade in the runup to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. A person was struck by a float and fatally injured Saturday evening during one of the iconic parades of the Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, authorities said. It was the second death in days to mar this year's Carnival festivities. (Max Becherer/The Advocate via AP)

Krewe of Endymion Mardi Gras float kills man in New Orleans

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