....Everyone in attendance tested negative for coronavirus no more than 48 hours beforehand. They're all wearing electronic tags to track contacts. It's part of a government-backed experiment to see how the events industry can get back on its feet in a country that, like much of mainland Europe, has been slow to roll out vaccinations.
..."So far the guinea pigs were very happy with being in the research," laughs Andreas Voss, professor of infection control at Radboud University.
While they have not yet published any conclusive results, Voss said that by comparing the data from concert-goers to that from the general population, they believe that attending a well-regulated event, divided into bubbles, with a negative PCR test, is no more risky than going about your normal daily life in the Netherlands.
"So far the risk is mostly lower than it would be untested, outside the event," Voss said. "We certainly have promising results, which show that in many of the situations we created, the risk during the special situation was lower or equal to the one at home."
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