Much to the annoyance of sport fans and culture hounds , events with large audiences have been put on ice over the preceding few month thanks to the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic . But as social distancing and lockdown measures get to allay up around the Earth , what ’s the hazard of such events?A massive unexampled experimentplans to employ the aid of a German dada star and 4,000 fan to chance out .
scientist at the University Hospital Halle ( Saale ) in Germany , funded by the federal country of Saxony - Anhalt and Saxony , are hop-skip to get insights into how the coronavirus might propagate at aggregative gatherings by closely observing three dissimilar scenarios at a concert by German singer - songwriter Tim Bendzko at Leipzig Arena on August 22 .
The volunteers , healthy people maturate 18 to 50 , will be try for Covid-19 48 hours before the concert and they will only be allowed to enter if they test negative . The researchers will give the concert - goers an FFP2 filter face masquerade and afluorescent hand sanitizerthat allows the scientists to track the Earth’s surface most often touch by audience appendage .
Most crucially , all participants will also be given an electronic tag that regularly beams back data about their aloofness , continuance , and frequency of impinging with other audience members . Once all of the data point on peoples ’ movement and fundamental interaction are collected , it will be run through a computer model that expect at how the coronavirus could be spread from person to soul .
The experimentation will play out under three unlike scenario : one scenario will be just like pre - Covid-19 ( albeit with necessary precautions like face masquerade party ) with 4,000 participant ; another simulation also with 4,000 participants will see the entry and movement of the audience controlled ; and the third simulation with just 2,000 participant will look at 1.5 - time ( 5 feet ) social distancing between seat rows .
“ The corona pandemic paralyzes the consequence industry . As long as there is a risk of contagion , no major concerts and barter fairs or sports events are allowed . That is why it is so of import to find out which technical or organizational theoretical account can in effect minimise the risk of infection of contagion , ” Professor Armin Willingmann , Saxony - Anhalt ’s Minister of Economics , allege in astatement .
scientist still havevery little hard evidenceabout how Covid-19 spread at aggregated gatherings , although a routine of case studies have suggest that big public coming together could providefertile ground for transmission .
“ If we want to grant major event again in the future tense , we need scientific knowledge about how we can derogate the risk of contagion and create more surety for all participants , " said Petra Köpping , Saxony ’s Minister of State for Social Affairs and Social Cohesion . " I am very glad that we can support such an important project across borders and thus activate the way back to more normality . Because , of course , major events are to take seat again in the future tense , but as the regime , we also have to bear our province for protecting the universe . ”
