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A new hope for all festival goers

Anti-lockdown movement calls for return to normal life

Research into possible future festival restrictions have begun.

A new hope for all festival goers

A new study into non-socially distanced festivals amid the coronavirus pandemic has sparked new hope for the future of concerts.

Anti-lockdown movement calls for return to normal life

Primavera Festival, which takes place in Barcelona, held a trial to see how the future of festivals mat be like amid the pandemic.

The trial, named Prima-CoV, tested whether masks and Covid testing upon entry would allow the festival industry to re-open in the future.

Primavera Sound, the Hospital Germans Trias and the Fight AIDS and Infectious Diseases Foundation had 1,000 people attend an event in a 1,600 capacity venue allowing space for distancing.

All people in the trial were aged 18 to 59.

Of the group, 463 attended the five hour concert while 496 were placed into a control group with no access to the venue. 

Masks were allowed to be removed when drinking during the concert.

 All participants in the trial took a same-day coronavirus antigen test and a follow-up test eight days later, which saw no positive results in the 463 people who attended the concert.

The study conductors, Boris Revollo and Josep M Llibre, saids: “Attending a live music concert staged with a series of security measures that included a negative antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 done on the same day, was not associated with an increase in COVID-19 infections.”

 “Hopefully this data will pave the way to save live concerts during the Covid pandemic.”

Out of the 496 people who were placed in a control group two people tested positive for corona in their results.

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