German scientists organized a pop exhibition in a concert hall filled with volunteers on Saturday to be informed of how the coronavirus spreads events in crowded indoors.
The studio of the concert, called Restart-19, was organized in Leipzig, Germany, for about 2,000 volunteers and featured German pop star Tim Bendzko.
Each volunteer was given a coronavirus test 48 hours before the concert and won a mask, fluorescent hand sanitizer and an electronic “touch marker” that would gather knowledge of contact rates and distances among other music lovers on the show.
There were 3 exhibitions in total, the first one simulated once before the coronavirus pandemic; the second, after the pandemic, with greater hygiene and some social estrangement imposed; and the third, with part of the number of other people and a strict social distance.
Scientists at the University of Halles will examine the number of “critical touches” through touch tracers and identify affected surfaces with lines left through fluorescent hand gel.
The experiment in preparation for the coming winter months, when the government expects an accumulation of indoor events.
The effects of the experiment are expected until the end of the year.
“There is no threat if you need to be alive. We need to give politicians a tool to rationally allow or not to allow such an opportunity. This means that you will have to have the tool to wait for the number of people most inflamed. such an occasion will happen,” Professor Michael Gekle, dean of medicine at The University of Halle, told CNN.
Researchers were the first experiment of its kind in Europe. They identified that other occasions would require other precautions, especially if participants drank alcohol. Germany has noticed an increase in Covid-19 instances since late July and on Saturday 2034 recorded new instances of Covid-19, its highest daily infections since last April.
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