The Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot announced Monday evening
“experiments”
in March and April, in Marseille and Paris, for
“standing”
concerts in
order to find a model allowing the reopening of venues despite the Covid epidemic. 19.
“I am very optimistic for seated festivals (...).
For standing shows, it's more complicated, that's why I'm conducting experiments and these experiments are intended to test what's going on, ”
she declared on the LCI channel.
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"Subject to a catastrophic health situation"
and if the protocols are validated, two test concerts will take place
"in the second half of March"
, with a thousand people, in the performance hall of the Dôme in Marseille,
"seated with the possibility of getting up ”
.
An experiment conducted with Inserm, a public institution dedicated to health and research.
All people will be tested before the concert, and positive cases
"will not be filtered because you have to put yourself in a situation where there will be a mixing"
.
Tests will also be carried out after the event, to see what happened in terms of contamination.
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Masks and hydroalcoholic gel will be distributed.
In Paris, 5,000 people will take part in an experiment in the large Accor Arena with the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP),
"a standing gauge concert"
, with
"a test group"
alongside these 5,000 people. , specified the minister.
Roselyne Bachelot also announced the holding of a European scientific conference, scheduled for Marseille on April 8, where the various experiments will be
“confronted”
and studied
“to build a resilient model”
for the entertainment world.
Cultural venues have been closed in France for several weeks in the face of the upsurge in the Covid-19 epidemic.