© 2020 – 2024 AEA3 WEB | AEAƎ United Kingdom News
AEA3 WEB | AEAƎ United Kingdom News
Image default
News

‘We are ecstatic!’: a taste of post-Covid freedom at Liverpool pilot gig

Event at Sefton Park attended by 5,000 people with no distancing or masks as part of research programme

  • Coronavirus – latest updates
  • See all our coronavirus coverage

The first “near-normal” concert since Covid began took place in Liverpool on Sunday, with 5,000 giddy music lovers crowding into a festival tent with no masks and no social distancing.

All had agreed to act as guinea pigs for scientists studying the safety of mass events as part of the government’s Event Research Programme. A negative Covid test was a condition of entry, with concert goers asked to take a further PCR test on Friday “so that festivals can go ahead this summer”.

Continue reading…

Related posts

Gaza residents told to move south as Israel prepares for expected ground assault

AEA3

Ukrainian family describe trauma of UK visa processing

AEA3

Asylum seekers risked all to get to the UK, then they were deported at dawn

AEA3