The Madrid Book Fair will finally be held between 2 and 18 October in the Parque del Retiro , as decided by the organizing committee that includes booksellers, publishers and distributors this Thursday, sources from the Community of Madrid have confirmed to Efe, which will provide 300,000 euros.

The commission has agreed to keep calling this event, which had been delayed until October after its initial celebration, scheduled for the first fortnight of June, due to the coronavirus pandemic was suspended.

The commission decided to postpone last week to this Thursday the decision on the fair to this meeting after reaffirming the "importance, need and value" of carrying it out.

And they agreed that for this the "support" of the Public Administrations was required in the "100% coverage of the costs" of an eventual cancellation of the Fair due to COVID-19, as well as the necessary financial support to "defray the extraordinary expenses "that the sanitary measures suppose to guarantee the health conditions.

At the end of last April, the director of the Book Fair, Manuel Gil, addressed the participants by letter to explain the scenario contemplated for the celebration in October of a "safe fair" with measures such as disinfection of booths. and pavilions twice a day , arches for temperature measurement, access control and capacity limitation, and extreme measures of social distancing.

Specifically, the security protocols contemplated require a redesign of the fair in order to limit spaces in which to implement the measures, an approach that was discussed with infrastructure and technology companies.

In that document sent by Manuel Gil, another scenario was contemplated, such as the celebration of a virtual fair on the same dates.

The Fair, which has been declared by the Madrid City Council as "General Interest Property of the City of Madrid" , has as its motto for this year's edition "The Standing Culture".

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