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| The Board of Brotherhoods has made this decision due to the variable health situation as a result of COVID-19 | The president of the Board of Brotherhoods, Juan Carlos de la Cerra, accompanied by the Elder Brothers of the Marraja Brotherhood, Francisco Pagán, and the Brotherhood of Cristo del Socorro, Manuel Martínez Guillén, has transferred the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón its decision to determine whether or not Easter 2021 will be celebrated two weeks before Friday of Dolores, due to the current health crisis generated by COVID-19.The deputy mayor, Noelia Arroyo, and the deputy mayor, Manuel Padín, were also present at the meeting between the Board of Brotherhoods and the Municipal Government."The Board of Brotherhoods will assess 15 days before if the processions go out to the street, and they will only go out as long as there is data and the health, civil and ecclesiastical authorities see it as recommended," explained Castejón.In addition, the mayor recalled that "we are in difficult times and health authorities and data are guiding decisions for all types of events in Cartagena.

Therefore, from the City Council we have been forced to make very difficult decisions to be guided by these data and recommendations from health workers ”.After making the decision in a meeting of the Board of Brotherhoods, its president has declared that “it was our duty thinking as processionists and Cartagena to communicate it.

We could organize the processions in 15 days, but we are subject to what the local, regional and national administrations determine, as well as the health and ecclesiastical ones ”.“Events vary every 24 hours, and the numbers of infections and deaths change.

Although it is going down in this second phase, we have to be cautious in case there is a third phase, and we cannot make a decision ”, de la Cerra concluded.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena