Antigen testing has part to play in pilot events, say experts
Events seen as key learning tools in campaign to build towards larger attendances
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Thursday’s Iveagh Gardens concert experiment in Dublin could pave the way to larger outdoor festivals but health experts have re-emphasised the need to add antigen testing to the mix.
Whether any transmission occurred at the event will not be known for some time but there is a belief that a more detailed understanding of human behaviour, a key aspect of how viruses spread, is possible to ascertain from such gatherings.
The National Concert Hall hosted concert, in which singers James Vincent McMorrow and Sorcha Richardson performed to 500 people was billed as “the first of many pilot events to take place outdoors this summer”.