A Coruña festivities suspended due to the outbreaks of Covid19 | Radio Coruña

He City Council of A Coruña has suspended all the shows included in the program of Fiestas de María Pita y del Northwest Estrella Galicia Festival, main course of the same and whose start was scheduled for tonight. The municipal government “supports and understands” the decision of the Consellería de Sanidade. to apply new restrictions to the number of outbreaks of Covid19 produced in the health area of ​​A Coruña, which places it at the head of infected in Galicia, for several weeks. The measures affect activities and meetings, not mobility. The Xunta de Galicia expects them to come into effect from 0.00 hours on Saturday. The order will have to be published in the DOG.

The Book Fair and the Mostrart Handicraft Fair remain open. The Xunta does not consider this type of event a danger to public health, so they will remain open until further notice, always under the maximum security measures, according to the City Council. The Tower of Hercules limits visits to a maximum of 10 people, in line with the guideline set by Sanidade.

The Coruña Council said in a statement that it felt the suspension of the Estrella Galicia Northwest Festival by the public and the creators who “were so excited” in this event but consider the cancellation necessary for the sake of safety because “health is the main thing”.

The Northwest Estrella Galicia, which was going to open tonight, included the concerts of Triángulo de Amor Bizarro, in the Plaza de María Pita. and Laura Lamontagne & Picoamperio, in the park of Santa Margarita, among others. Events ran through Sunday night in a reduced XS version of the festival, which reached its 34th edition this year.

The mayor of A Coruña, Inés Rey, was clear when the party poster was made public, if it was necessary to cut more or cancel it, it would be done: “The health situation conditions everything, not just the parties. We are seeing that there are communities that they are regressing of phases because the sanitary condition thus forces it “.

In an interview in Hoy por Hoy A Coruña, he admitted that it had been painful to have to cut the parties down to a small format, but more pain caused by the effects of the pandemic: “It is painful not being able to celebrate parties as we would have liked and in which We have been working for a long time, the design was more ambitious but the situation is what it is, and we have to adapt in everything, not just at parties “.

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