A test concert gives hope to an entire industry.
5000 music fans visited a festival in Barcelona - all corona tests remained negative after the concert.
Barcelona - The corona pandemic * has the music industry firmly under control.
Musicians are no longer allowed to pursue their favorite occupation for far too long - and their fans also suffer as a result: the music industry has been without concerts for over a year.
But is now finally an end in sight?
A test concert in Barcelona provides hope.
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5000 music fans celebrated the concert with a negative corona test and an FFP2 mask
In times of the corona pandemic, it sounds unimaginable at first: 5,000 music fans meet for a concert.
That's what happened in Barcelona.
The local hospital attended the event.
Every visitor felt obliged to submit a negative corona test before visiting.
They also had to wear FFP2 masks, which are already mandatory on Hamburg's buses and trains *.
The result is astonishing and now offers a whole industry a new perspective: No visitor went home with a corona infection.
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5,000 people attended a test concert in Barcelona.
Even after the concert, the corona tests remained negative.
(24hamburg.de - assembly)
© Emilio Morenatti / dpa / AP
After the test concert in Barcelona: PCR tests confirm the positive message
For many organizers at home and abroad, another summer without concerts and festivals would mean the final end.
Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, they have been taking creative paths.
In Bremen, “Club 100” recently considered a new concept format for live performances despite Corona *.
But even if digital concerts can function as a stopgap, they can by no means replace real concerts - neither for fans, musicians or organizers.
Above all financially, the music industry, to which countless jobs depend, can only be sustained with difficulty without concerts.
Driven by the financial emergency and the desire to finally be able to offer music fans a real concert again, a festival took place on March 27th in the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona.
Two weeks after the concert, all visits were subjected to a PCR test.
As it turned out afterwards, the Barcelona concert could be a model "of how we can live with Corona and organize absolutely safe concerts," said the director of the so-called Sónar Festival in Barcelona, Ventura Barba, about the successful test concert.
After a Hamburg super quick test promised a normal life after just 28 minutes *, this is another message that gives hope for major events.
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