Jordan: This year's "Jerash Festival" will be held for one hour without an audience
The executive director of the Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts, Ayman Samawi, in Jordan, said, "The festival this year will not be held in its traditional form, including concerts and cultural activities."
Samawi added in a statement to the Jordanian newspaper “Al-Ghad” that “the festival this year is only one concert lasting one hour only, and without an audience, and the Jordanian TV will broadcast the ceremony live, at the usual time for the launch of the Jerash Festival, in order to preserve this festival in memory. The audience".
Samawi explained that the ceremony is a tribute to the armed forces, security services and medical devices for their role in combating Corona virus.
The National Committee for Epidemic Control had approved the Ministry of Culture's request to hold the activities of the Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts in its 35th session, according to Minister of Health Dr. Saad Jaber.
Jaber said that the epidemics agreed to open and close the festival activities in one day only, and in the presence of less than 20 people only.
Jaber had justified the request to hold the festival’s activities because it had not closed its doors since 1983.