Around 5,000 people spent Saturday night at a gig in Barcelona after receiving negative results in same-day Covid testing.

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Spanish specialists let the show, highlighting band Love of Lesbian, go on as a feature of a pilot.

Fans stepped through an examination before in the day and didn’t need to keep actually separated however they actually wore covers.

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It is probably the biggest get-together in Europe in over a year since the pandemic started.

“This is for one night in particular, so appreciate it,” one of the hosts said before the show began at Saint Jordi Arena.

The gig was held as a feature of an examination project taking a gander at the feasibility of holding Covid-secure mass occasions following fast testing of visitors.

It follows a comparable examination in the Netherlands a week ago, when fans went to a two-day concert in the wake of showing verification of a negative Covid test.

In Barcelona ticket-holders were just allowed to enter the arena once a negative outcome code was shipped off their telephones. Temperatures and IDs were left behind.

Staff from a neighborhood emergency clinic and occasion advertisers collaborated to complete fast testing in stalls inside tents at three nearby settings.

“We anticipate that it should be totally protected. Throughout the following 14 days we will take a gander at the number of the crowd test positive for Covid and will report back,” specialist Josep Maria Llibre disclosed to AFP news organization.

“I’m so incredibly, energized. It’s been year and a half since we’ve been in front of an audience and one of us up here is in tears!” lead artist Santi Balmes yelled to fans from the stage.

“We truly needed to accomplish something other than what’s expected, to make a stride towards ordinariness,” one visitor told AFP. In any case, Marina Crespo, 25, added that she actually attempted “not to get excessively near individuals”.

The pandemic has crushed the unrecorded music industry alongside numerous other social exercises. The European music industry lost 76% of its pay in 2020, as indicated by an examination by Spain’s Music Federation.

-BBC
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