Restart-19: “Heroes” simulate Covid-19 spread at test show
1,500 volunteers spent ten hours inside Arena Leipzig on Saturday as part of a scientific experiment that aimed to show how coronavirus travels at indoor events
News By IQ | 24 August 2020
The scientists behind the Restart-19 project, who invited thousands of volunteers to take part in three experimental concerts in Germany on Saturday, say the study should provide valuable data about the Covid-19 infection risks posed by large indoor events.
Fifteen hundred people took part in the experiment, held at the Quarterback Immobilien Arena (12,200-cap.) in Leipzig on 22 August as part of Restart-19, a partially publicly funded research project run by the University Hospital in Halle (Universitätsmedizin, UKH).
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