• Music The Catalan health minister says that the music festivals were "a mistake"

Although they were presented as risk-free concerts and tests and screenings were carried out for those attending the entrance, the Vida, Canet Rock and Cruïlla festivals, held at the beginning of July in several Catalan towns, caused more cases of coronavirus. Precisely the Generalitat, which lowered the measures for infections the two weeks in which these events were held in Canet, Vilanova i la geltrú and Barcelona before putting restrictions again, has presented a study carried out in which it is indicated that those attending These festivals had between 1.35 and 2.6 more chances of getting COVID compared to people who did not attend.

A study coordinated by the Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya indicates that 2,279 positives were registered 14 days after attending the festivals, 842 more cases than the comparative control group, with people who did not attend, made up of 50,000 users. The study indicates that infections occurred according to each festival. Thus, in Vida, which lasted three days with an attendance of 10,000 per day, 466 cases were registered, so it is considered that the screenings with tests were less effective.

For its part, in Canet Rock, with 22,000 people, 956 cases were detected that were prevented from accessing after giving positive in an antigen test. Cruilla was the most effective of the three with 20,000 daily attendees in three days and 857 cases. In the three festivals, a test had to be passed to enter the venue and a mask had to be worn despite being outdoors. In addition, the study indicates that about 270 people who tested negative but were in close contact with positives were allowed in.

The Secretary of Public Health, Carmen Cabezas, recognized that festivals have influenced the transmission of covid, as well as other variables such as the appearance of the Delta, and that the causes of the current fifth wave are "complex" to explain.

However, it considers that they are not "super transmitting" events and that current limitations prevent festivals with audiences such as those held during those 10 days.

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