The race against time has been slowed down because of the third confinement, political precautions and the slowness of the French administration, but the files of the scientific test concerts planned at the Accor Hotels Arena in Paris and at the Dôme in Marseille are progressing despite everything. .
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In Marseille, Inserm researchers are still awaiting one or two authorizations from the Ministry of Health and we hope to be able to organize our two concerts in May
", announces the emergency doctor Vincent Estornel at the origin of this project which is to bring together two times 1000 spectators at the Dome.
In Paris, "
the health protocol filed by the AP-HP since March 22 will be examined on April 13,
" explains Malika Seguineau, director of Prodiss, the federation of producers and private owners of theaters.
The big concert at Bercy in front of 5,000 people standing could now take place at the end of May, i.e. two months behind the date initially planned.
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Paris was passed by Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi, where a giant test concert of 5,000 people masked but without a safe distance was successfully organized on Saturday March 27.
Doctors at the Germans Trias i Pujol hospital in Barcelona are waiting two weeks or next week to find out if spectators have contracted the Covid.
The goal of all these clinical experiences is to put in place safe health protocols to allow concerts and live performances to resume.
Why, if the experiment has already been carried out at European level, maintain the concert-tests in France?
Because the experiments developed by French scientists are different.
In Spain, the study was only "
observational
", therefore with less solid results than those expected in Paris and Marseille.