Coronaviruses closes the Astrid Lindgren park with milliontab

It will be a short season for Astrid Lindgren's World, in Vimmerby in Småland.

the Restrictions due to the outbreak of the coronavirus means that Sunday will be the last opening day this season.

The just 11 opening provides a milliontab for eventyrparken, where the universe of Astrid Lindgren's children's books may be experienced.

This writes the news agency TT.

the Closure means a loss of 120 million Swedish krona - equal to 85,3 million dollars.

This will have consequences for the employees, in which 450 out of the 500 employees on Friday has been fired.

- I'm really sorry, but it is a fact. We made a wholehearted attempt to get a safe and good solution, but it turned out that it did not work, says director of the rhythm guitar, Johansson to TT.

In the World of Astrid Lindgren is entered performances with the well known characters from the forfatterindens books.

Here readers have, among other things, meet skarnsknægten Emil from Lønneberg and Pippi Longstocking, who is the world's strongest girl and living alone in the big house Villa Villekulla.

Tilskuerantallet by these performances came, however, to collide with forsamlingsforbuddet in Sweden, there is 50 persons.

- We were told that if we played two performances at the same time with 50 spectators at each venue, it would count as 100 people, although there were several hundred meters between the different scenes, and therefore, the bread we ordensloven, say rhythm guitar, Johansson to TT.

It was otherwise, the idea is to keep eventyrparken open for up to 1500 daily visitors.

the Message from the authorities, however, according to the rhythm guitar, Johansson is practically impossible to operate the park.

Eventyrparken should really have opened the 15. may, but because of the outbreak of the corona virus, it was moved to 17. June.

It ended, however, with that being a short season in the year.