• Culture: This is what the Book Fair will be like: booths disinfected twice a day and temperature measurement arches

The celebration of the Madrid Book Fair in 2020 is still a mystery after the coronavirus health crisis. The literary event, which is held every June in the Retiro Park , already saw how the pandemic forced him to delay this edition until next October 2. But the presence of the booths in the central green space of the capital is also not assured at the moment.

The Organizing Committee, meeting yesterday, issued a statement after the meeting in which it stated that for the literary event to take place "they require the support of the Public Administrations". Specifically, the three competent: the Madrid City Council, the Community of Madrid and the Ministry of Culture .

And the support that booksellers, publishers and distributors request "unanimously" is none other than a two-tier economic fund . The first would be intended for a possible cancellation of the Book Fair in the event that the country or the city of Madrid suffer a outbreak of coronavirus last summer that forces the event to be suspended as it already happened in this first wave of the pandemic. "We cannot risk being ruined by losing the money involved in organizing the fair and not holding it," spokesman for the Madrid Publishers Association, Paulo Cosin, told EL MUNDO in a telephone conversation.

The second claim of the Book Fair is an economic aid that allows them to cover "the extraordinary expenses" of the sanitary measures that will have to be adopted to guarantee the safety and health of both vendors and visitors. "We understand that these are sensible measures and we are sure that the administration will support us and will not leave us alone in this situation," says Cosin, noting that booksellers, publishers and distributors remain "especially united" in this petition.

Thus, the decision of whether the celebration of the 2020 Book Fair will finally take place from October 2 to 18, as the president, Manuel Gil, had announced during the month of April, will have to wait at least a few days for the institutional response. This event, which was declared by the Madrid City Council Plenary last May as being of general interest to the city, would celebrate its 79th edition this year with Colombia holding the role of guest country.

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