Almuñécar Town Hall has given the town’s Semana Santa brotherhoods 2,000 FFP2 masks so that they can practice for this coming Easter.

The Mayor handed them over in a formal act before the gathered local press to the Chairman of the Agrupación de Cofradías de Almuñécar, José Carlos Linares.

She said that the Town Hall wanted to contribute this “grain of sand” so that the different brotherhoods could be even more aware of the need to wear masks amongst their members.” She went on to say that she hoped that “everybody could enjoy our Semana Santa as it is very important from a religious, tourist and economic viewpoint.”

The said Chairman, J.C. Linares, thanked the Town Hall and underlined the importance that Semana Santa (declared, Interés Turístico de Andalucía by the Junta) had for the municipality,

Editorial comment: if I, you, and everybody else, has to buy our own masks then you can be reasonably sure that everybody belonging to the brotherhoods, as individuals, has been doing the same, so why the donation? Donate them to professionals such as teachers and medical workers, even those at most risk; i.e, the elderly, for that matter, and it makes more sense but for people who already have masks as all of us do? Would it not be more sensible to store them so we don’t get caught out again?

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)