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This Saturday, 5,000 people attended a rock concert in Barcelona, Spain, after being screened at the covid-19 the same day, to test the effectiveness of the tests in preventing outbreaks of the disease in important cultural events .
While the rest of the country has meetings limited to four people in closed spaces, elements of the public in the concert of the Spanish rock band Love of Lesbian, which has been authorized by the health authorities, can mix freely, although the use of mask Was mandatory.
People with heart disease, cancer, or who have been in contact with someone infected with COVID-19 in recent weeks have been asked not to sign up to participate in this experiment.
Those who bought tickets for the concert can choose between three places in Barcelona to do an antigen test this morning: Luz de Gas, Razzmatazz and Sala Apolo.
Those who had a negative result received a code on their cell phone that validated the tickets for the concert, scheduled for 7:00 p.m. local time (6:00 p.m. in Lisbon) at the Palau Sant Jordi.
According to the organization, of all the tests carried out, six were positive.
“Welcome to one of the most exciting concerts of our life. We have not been on stage in a year and a half,” said the lead singer of the band, Santi Balmes, who asked the audience to keep the masks: “El El the world is seeing each other “and” this concert is a small battle within the war, “said the musician, quoted by the EFE agency.
Santi Balmes dedicated the concert “to health professionals and other essential workers”.
According to the organizers, this was the first commercial event with such a large audience to take place in Europe during the covid-19 pandemic.
The tickets, priced between 23 and 28 euros, and which included the price of the antigen test and a mandatory high-quality mask, were sold out in eight hours.
Masks can be removed for eating or drinking, in designated areas.
The organization of this show, had already been in charge of another, with about 500 people, which took place in December.
The results of this preliminary study showed that pre-screening, with antigen tests and the use of masks, managed to prevent infections at the concert, despite the lack of social distancing rules.
“This is a small step towards holding concerts and other cultural events during the pandemic,” said Boris Revollo, the virologist involved in the design of health protocols for today’s concert, quoted by EFE.
People who attended today’s concert authorized health officials to inform Boris Revollo’s team, if they had covid-19 in the weeks after the show.
With this information, the Boris Revollo team will analyze the contagion rates among the 5,000 spectators compared to the infection rate in the general population, to see if there will be discrepancies that could point to contagion at the concert.
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