Regardless of a current surge in infections and fears the festive interval may propel Spain into a 3rd wave of the coronavirus, 5,000 folks attended a live performance in Madrid on Saturday evening by the singer Raphael.
The live performance, marking Raphael’s 60 years in showbusiness, was held on the WiZink Heart within the capital.
It got here a day after the well being minister known as for “most prudence”, including: “We could possibly be at first of a 3rd wave if we don’t take the suitable measures.”
Amid heavy criticism on social media, the live performance’s organisers mentioned the occasion had been rigorously deliberate and complied totally with the Madrid area’s well being tips.
In a tweet, they identified that entry was staggered, that masks and gel had been getting used, that the air was modified each 12 minutes, and that folks’s temperatures had been taken.
Below the present guidelines, live performance venues should function at 40% capability. Organisers mentioned the WiZink Heart was working at 30% of its complete capability of 17,000 spectators.
Raphael is because of give one other live performance on the identical venue on Sunday evening.
In two tweets on Saturday, the singer wrote: “Lastly the day of my new present has come … I’ll dedicate to you all of the songs which have accompanied us over the course of our first 60 years collectively. I need to hug every and everybody of you with the music that has all the time introduced us collectively. I really like you to dying!”
The Madrid regional authorities, which is permitting bars and eating places to stay open over Christmas and the brand new 12 months, mentioned on Friday it had taken the “very painful” resolution to restrict non-public festive gatherings to 6 folks.
The primary spherical of Spain’s vaccination programme – for well being staff, employees and residents of care houses, and people with extreme well being issues – is because of start on 27 December.
To this point, Spain has recorded 1,797,236 instances of the virus and 48,926 deaths.