The city of New York will cancel the St. Patrick’s Parade for the first time in its 258-year history, scheduled for next week, before the spread of the coronavirus in the region.
The mayor of NY, Bill de Blasio, said they are “waiting confirmation”, which was subsequently done by local media, pointing out that tomorrow, after tonight’s gala dinner, very important for donations for the holiday, the official call for the emblematic parade will take place.
The official number of those infected with coronavirus in New York State stands at 216 people, 53 of whom reside in the Big Apple. The decision joins that of other prominent St. Patrick’s parades, such as those of Dublin, Chicago or Boston, have already announced their cancellation.
Thousands of people attend the St. Patrick’s Parade from New York, which It has been celebrated in the city since 1762, which makes it the celebration in honor of the patron saint of Ireland oldest in the world.
Last year, about 150 thousand people, members of the different Irish associations that exist in NY, they toured the popular Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to the sound of bagpipes and brass bands, and accompanied by some two million citizens who came to admire the event.
The organizations that normally parade, some of them several centuries old, were mostly trained to help the large number of Irish migrating to NY to settle in the city and find work and residence, and today they try to preserve the culture of Ireland in the city.
Deaths from the coronavirus in the United States rose to 37 this Wednesday as the authorities warned that “the situation in the country is going to get worse”, in a day in which the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the pandemic, which continues to cause cancellation of events or restrictions on travelers in different parts of the world.
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