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The Navarre region, of which Pamplona is the capital, has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 in Spain.
Spain s famous bull-running festival held in northern city of Pamplona will not take place due to coronavirus pandemic, said Pamplona s mayor. This will be the second straight year of such cancellation. It is with regret that I am forced to officially cancel the San Fermin festival for this year 2021 , Enrique Maya told a news conference.
He said that the festival, which involves daring daily bull-runs would be a very high risk in light of the Covid pandemic.
The Navarre region, the capital of which is Pamplona, has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 in Spain.
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MADRID – Officials in northern Spain’s Pamplona have called off the famed San FermÃn bull-running festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Pamplona Mayor Enrique Maya cited a prevalence of coronavirus outbreaks, a high occupancy rate in hospitals and a slow rollout of vaccines as reasons to call off this summer’s celebration.
“The festival cannot be organized overnight,” Maya said Monday during a news conference. “This is very hard. I never thought that this could happen.”
The nine-day festival in July is easily Spain’s most international event. The festival was popularized by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises” and up to last year’s cancellation had last been called off during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
Pamplona cancels bull-running festival for second year Mayor of Spanish city suspends week-long events due to risk of coronavirus spreading
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Participants running next to Nunez del Cuvillo fighting bulls and steers during the 2019 San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain. File photograph: Jaime Reina/AFP via Getty Images
The mayor of the Spanish city of Pamplona on Monday cancelled the San Fermin festival, including its famous bull runs, for a second year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“To my very despair, I’m forced to officially suspend the festival of San Fermin in 2021,” mayor Enrique Maya told reporters on Monday.
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The mayor of Pamplona, Enrique Maya, announced on Monday that the Sanfermines 2021 fiesta will once again be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a press conference, the councillor described the news as “very hard”, insisting that the 2022 party will be bigger and better than ever, triple in size.
“In 2022 we are going to experience three Sanfermines at the same time,” he said. In addition, this year Pamplona will carry out a wide cultural program between June and September, Maya pointed out: “There will not be Sanfermines, but Pamplona will be very much alive.”