Savannah called off its St. Patrick’s Day parade for the first time in nearly a century, bowing Wednesday to the coronavirus outbreak. Atlanta also canceled its parade, which was planned for Saturday.
The Georgia cities follow Chicago, Boston and places in Ireland in scrapping the annual parades in a bid to stop the spread of the new virus strain.
“Out of an abundance of caution, the Atlanta St. Patrick’s Parade is cancelling this year’s event due to the growing concerns about the COVID … The health and safety of our participants, volunteers and attendees are of the utmost importance to us and we felt this was the only responsible action we could have taken. We hope this mitigation measure will help keep metro Atlanta residents safe,” according to the Atlanta event’s website.
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