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Manizha (Russia) during the first dress rehearsal of the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 at Ahoy arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (Photo by DPPA/Sipa USA)
Manizha (Russia) during the first dress rehearsal of the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 Source: DPPA/Sipa USA

Eurovision week has arrived and fans are more than happy to embrace the glitz and theatrics after last year's event was cancelled. It is a song contest like no other in Rotterdam and there have already been a couple of COVID-19 scares.

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By Stephanie Corsetti, Ben Lewis, Svetlana Printcev

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Eurovision week has arrived and fans are more than happy to embrace the glitz and theatrics after last year's event was cancelled. It is a song contest like no other in Rotterdam and there have already been a couple of COVID-19 scares.

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