Ana Obregón tests positive for coronavirus and will not present the chimes of TVE

Ana García Obregón will not be able to finally be ringing the bells at Puerta del Sol having tested positive for coronavirus, reports RTVE.

Anne Igartiburu and Jacob Petrus will present the special program on La 1 and La 2 this December 31 and will welcome 2022. This will be the seventeenth consecutive broadcast of the Basque presenter, while the host of

makes his debut in this work .

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💥 @anneigartiburu_ and @jacobpetrus_tve will give #CampanadasRTVE

Ana García Obregón will not be in Puerta del Sol for having tested positive for coronavirus.

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- RTVE Communication and Participation (@RTVE_Com) December 29, 2021

The presenter has confirmed her absence on her social networks: “Tell you that I am fine, at home, as if it were a super strong cold thanks to the vaccines.

This variant flies, it is everywhere.

Someone tells you that he has not left his house every Christmas and yet I have taken it.

What saddens me the most is not being able to be on that balcony of Puerta del Sol to thank you all from my heart for the support and immense love that I have received all this year through the networks, in the media and in the Street".

Jacob Petrus began in 2014 to present

informative magazine of La 1 focused on analyzing the influence of climatology and meteorology in Spain and in the world. Previously, he was responsible for the meteorology department of Telemadrid, as well as a collaborator of

, and between 2000 and 2004 he was in charge of the preparation and dissemination of the meteorological forecast in different PRISA Group media, such as Cadena Ser, 40 Principales , M-80, Localia and CNN +.

Those of this Friday were going to be the bells of the reunion between Obregón and Igartiburu after the emotional moment of last year, which meant the return to the screen of Obregón after the death of his son Aless Lequio. On December 31, 2020, there were 6.1 million viewers who changed the cycle with the two presenters, in which it was the public reappearance of Obregón. In total, 11,347,000 people connected with the special at some point, according to data from Kantar Media.

This year, Nieves Álvarez and Roberto Herrera will take over from the Canary Islands, specifically from the island of La Palma.

On the occasion of the volcanic eruption will be the solidarity bells

.

The presenters will cover, in this way, those evicted by the eruption.

Nieves Álvarez will debut alongside Roberto Herrera, who celebrates his 20th anniversary in the broadcast.

In the rest of the channels, Cristina Pedroche and Alberto Chicote repeat on Antena 3, after last year they beat their own record: 5,535,000 viewers on average.

Although they stayed in second position, they achieved the most viewed chimes in the history of the private channel.

Mediaset does change its host partner.

Paz Padilla and Carlos Sobera will replace Sandra Barneda and Christian Gálvez this December 31 and will broadcast the chimes from Vejer de la Frontera (Cádiz).

In La Sexta, Dani Mateo and Cristina Pardo will be the faces of the turn of the year and Ramón García will join Ibai Llanos on Twitch.

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