Fieldlab results: Infection risk ‘same as at home’

Data from the Back to Live pilot programme gives the Dutch government “the key to give the green light for the festival summer”

News By | 28 May 2021

The Rotterdam Open, held at the Ahoy arena in March, was a Fieldlab event © Fieldlab Evenementen

The findings from three months’ worth of pilot events in the Netherlands show that the risk of Covid-19 infection, when following certain hygiene and testing protocols, is about the same as being at home, organiser Fieldlab Evenementen has revealed.

Fieldlab – an initiative of the Dutch government and several trade bodies, including the pan-industry Alliantie van Evenementenbouwers (Alliance of Event Builders) – kicked off its Back to Live series of test events in February, with the most recent event, the…

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