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More than 40 merchants from the surroundings of Quinta da Atalaia, in the parish of Amora, Seixal, will close their establishments during the Festa do Avante !, as a “precaution” and to “mitigate the risk” of contagion by the new coronavirus.
In statements to the Lusa agency, Maria Carvalho, head of the kitchen of the Rota dos Petiscos Terra e Mar Restaurant, an establishment that started the “movement”, said this Sunday that she had appealed to the “good sense of merchants to close doors”, among September 4 and 6, the days in which the 44th edition of Avante!
“I prefer to close three days, even with sacrifice, than to close three weeks,” said María Carvalho, adding that “the movement of people during ‘Avante!’ it involves the entire parish of Amora, and not just Quinta da Atalaia ”, where the annual event organized by PCP takes place.
As a precaution and to “mitigate the risk” of contagion with the new coronavirus, María Carvalho said that there are already more than 40 merchants who are going to close their establishments, including real estate agencies, car workshops, hairdressers, gyms, restaurants and cakes.
Jerónimo de Sousa guarantees that PCP will celebrate the Festa do Avante!
“This decision has no political or partisan connotations. I have nothing against the Festa do Avante “, assured the cook who, together with her children, husband and daughters-in-law, runs the Rota dos Petiscos Terra e Mar restaurant, and who chose to” safeguard the family. “
María Lusa also said that there are also “several neighbors” from Amora, in the Seixal municipality, Setúbal district, who are considering leaving home during the days of the Avante Festival! for not wanting to “take risks to public health.”
Due to the covid-19 pandemic, Avante! this year it has a third of the capacity (33 thousand people).
