This report is from AFP.
Six individuals out of 5,000 who attended an indoor trial live performance final month in Barcelona reported testing constructive for Covid-19 afterwards, organisers mentioned on Tuesday, giving hope for the revival of the stay music trade.
Forward of the present, everybody underwent mass screening and antigen assessments. There have been no mass assessments afterwards, however 15 days later solely six individuals reported testing constructive for Covid-19 in keeping with public medical data of the individuals.
“There is no such thing as a signal that implies transmission happened throughout the occasion,” Josep Maria Llibre, an infectious ailments specialist from the Germans Trias i Pujol hospital instructed a information convention precisely a month after the 27 March live performance. “We will say that it was not a super-spreading occasion,” he added.
Organised by the hospital and a gaggle of Spanish music promoters, the live performance within the Palau de Sant Jordi was billed as Europe’s largest indoor rock live performance for the reason that begin of the pandemic. It featured considered one of Spain’s hottest bands, indie rockers Love of Lesbian.
Not one of the individuals had been vaccinated for Covid-19. They wore FPP2 surgical masks on the live performance and capability at bogs was restricted to keep away from crowding however there was no assigned seating or obligatory social distancing.
Out of the six individuals who later examined constructive, “we’re sure that in 4 of those six circumstances, transmission didn’t happen throughout the live performance,” Llibre mentioned.
Boris Revollo, the virologist concerned within the design of the well being protocols on the live performance, mentioned he couldn’t “categorically” rule out that the opposite two individuals had been contaminated throughout the live performance however there was a “very excessive chance” that they’d not. “The measures which we applied had been very protected,” he added.
The Palau can welcome 17,000 individuals, however solely 5,000 ticket holders had been allowed in for final month’s occasion.
“With optimised air flow, antigen assessments and the sporting of face masks,” we may assure a protected house, Libre mentioned.
The deputy mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, mentioned the outcomes of the research present “it’s doable to calm down” virus well being restrictions and “restart cultural actions”.
The identical group carried out one other take a look at at a smaller live performance in December in one other Barcelona, the Sala Apolo with an viewers of 500 individuals.
That point across the concertgoers had been examined earlier than the present, in addition to one other 500 individuals who acted as a management group, and everyone received examined once more eight days later. The entire Apolo concertgoers examined detrimental whereas two individuals within the management group examined constructive.
Trial live performance or competition occasions have been held in a number of European nations, together with in Germany and the Netherlands, as a part of efforts to permit crowds to type once more to see stay music.
In keeping with a research revealed by Spain’s Music Federation, the European music trade misplaced 76% of its earnings in 2020 as live shows and main music festivals such because the UK’s Glastonbury fell sufferer to pandemic restrictions.
“The outcomes of the take a look at live performance in Barcelona provides us hope, it’s a excellent factor,” Aurelie Hannedouche of France’s Union of Modern Music (SMA), which represents festivals, live performance venues and producers, instructed AFP.