Dancers - some in elaborate costumes - strutted into the final round of the Rio Carnival's samba championship, capping a wild party that has helped Brazilians forget about Zika and other worries.
Rio’s Carnival - a five day festival of dancing, bared flesh and wild costumes – is underway in the face of warnings that the Zika virus might make even kissing dangerous.
Undeterred by sexual attacks blamed on migrants on New Year’s Eve, German women in clown costumes and bright wigs kicked off six days of carnival celebrations in Cologne yesterday amid unusually heavy security.
