The mayor of Aarhus, considering the festival cancellation

the Mayor of Aarhus Jacob Bundsgaard (S) will reconsider its decision to keep the firm in the execution of the Aarhus Festival.

he said to Aarhus Stiftstidende.

the Mayor rejected the former face of TV2 Østjylland, to a cancellation of the big town festival could be.

- Who are summoned to the meeting of the board of the festival week on Monday, and here we will make the final decision about what we do and if so, to what extent.

- the Conclusion will very much depend on a healthcare assessment, and in the signals we get from the Christiansborg palace, says Jacob Bundsgaard, who is also president of festugens board of directors, to Århus Stiftstidende.

the Proposal to cancel the festival week came in the first place from the councillor for children and young Thomas Medom. According to TV2 Østjylland he asked on Tuesday, his colleagues in the city council to cancel the event due to the increasing smittetal in the city and the rest of east Jutland.

The position found support from the former director of the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) Nils Strandberg Pedersen and Rune Hartmann, as a researcher in viral diseases at the University of Aarhus.

According to TV2 Østjylland recommend both a cash cancellation of the event.

the city has in the past few weeks been the subject of a flare-up in covid-19-contagion, which has led to the re-entry of besøgsrestriktioner, care homes and social residential facilities.

There are also been introduced a requirement that citizens must bear the mundbind, when travelling by public transport.

A number of municipalities in the central denmark Region is hit by a flare-up of infection with the covid-19.

Thus, Silkeborg, denmark, Odder, Horsens, Skanderborg, denmark and Has also subject to the requirement of mundbind in the public transport.

health Minister Magnus Heunicke (S) said Tuesday that more of the local diseases of concern.