{"id":84591,"date":"2021-03-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=84591"},"modified":"2021-03-30T12:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T11:35:23","slug":"5000-fans-attend-barcelona-rock-concert-after-taking-rapid-coronavirus-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/5000-fans-attend-barcelona-rock-concert-after-taking-rapid-coronavirus-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"5,000 fans attend Barcelona rock concert after taking rapid coronavirus tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><span style=\"color:#3366FF\"> Thousands of people were allowed to cram into a concert after passing rapid Covid tests, in social distancing live music experiment. <\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A sign of brighter things to come? Spanish indie rock group Love of Lesbian were able to play the Palau Sant Jordi arena in Barcelona to a crowd without any social distancing, in what\u2019s being reported as the largest gig in <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/liveurope-study-young-musicians-touring-europe\/\">Europe<\/a> since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concert was part of an <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/luxembourg-live-music-experiment-could-pave-the-way-for-the-return-to-live-events\/\">experiment<\/a> to test out <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/music-venues-in-the-uk-to-trail-health-passports-in-an-effort-to-kickstart-live-music-events-safely\/\">COVID-safe<\/a> crowd controls. In scenes that had those of us still living with coronavirus restrictions pining for 2019, fans were able to squash together and dance close to each other \u2013 except that the view of the crowd was a sea of face masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/loveoflesbian\/status\/1376157331491323904\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/loveoflesbian\/status\/1376157331491323904<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The logistics involved were fairly simple but did delay the scheduled start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/the-impact-on-music-festivals-due-to-coronavirus-in-2020\/\">concert. <\/a>The $23 ticket included a rapid test and mask, and all the gig-goers were tested ahead of the concert at three locations across the city. 80 nurses were available to conduct the tests, and antigen test results were received on an app within 10-15 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were refunds given for any fans who tested positive; by the time the first 2,400 people were tested three had received positive results, and therefore didn\u2019t attend the gig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gig will be a test for the reopening of the live music sector; organisers of similar events will be keeping their eyes peeled for the results. <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/primavera-sounds-trail-for-gigs-with-no-social-distancing-finds-no-infection-rate\/\">A similar experiment at Primavera Sound,<\/a> a festival which also took place in Barcelona, was hailed a success in January by organisers when results from rapid tests showed no infection rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people were allowed to cram into a concert after passing rapid Covid tests, in social distancing live music experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":84592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,1048],"tags":[24378,24371,24376,17068,24372,24373,24375,24374,24377,21672,21671,21779],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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