18December 2020
Last weekend (December 12), Primavera Sound employed rapid coronavirus testing to host a live music event without social distancing.
The festival held a successful trial for mid/post-pandemic gigs, inviting over 1,000 people to attend an event at the 1,608 capacity Sala Apolo venue in Barcelona. Organisers at the event, dubbed PRIMACOV, employed rapid testing on arrival, with each attendee having to return a negative test before being granted entry. The results were available within 15 minutes.
“That was, precisely, the objective of this study,” PRIMACOV said in a statement. “To validate these kinds of tests as an extremely useful tool to be able to carry out any type of event, whether musical or not, without social distancing.”
The new trial from Primavera is one of a handful of new techniques touted to enable the return of traditional live music.
This week, it was revealed that legendary London venue The 100 Club will pilot a new ventilation system next month that aims to wipe out 99.99 per cent of dangerous airborne pathogens, such as the coronavirus, within buildings.
Developed by a British team of engineers, scientists, medical experts and entrepreneurs, the PRS (Pathogen Reduction System) has been designed to fit into a building’s existing ventilation system.
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It then works to scrub indoor air clean “by using high intensity UVC light to safely inactivate 99.99 per cent of dangerous airborne pathogens such as COVID-19, MRSA, measles, TB and the common flu virus”.
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