At the home game against 1. FC Köln next Saturday, 1. FC Union will be the Use of rapid tests try it out for the first time in the stadium at the Alte Försterei. The club announced on Wednesday.
The voluntary antigen tests will be offered to everyone present in the stadium, Union spokesman Christian Arbeit said on Thursday. In the case of ghost games, these are club employees, security personnel or representatives of the press. Eight test stations will be set up in the main standwhere you can be tested before entering the stadium. There will be a “digital link” so that a scanned code will indicate whether the test was negative upon admission.
Some participants, such as television technicians, will be tested early in the morning, while others, such as journalists, will only get their turn two hours before kick-off. With the whole procedure one wants to “” gain knowledge for a use in the public enterprise.
“We want to be optimally prepared to to be able to carry out a pilot project with spectatorsas soon as appropriate approval has been given, ”said Arbeit. The club spokesman said that such a pilot project with spectators would hopefully be possible this season, but said at the same time that it would be possible “still far away” be.
In the past year Union published a guiding principle for re-admitting viewers with the use of PCR and rapid tests. The plans were later put on hold because the test capacities in Germany were not sufficient at the time.
Since there is now sufficient availability, the Union, like other cultural organizers, can try out its concept in practice for the first time, Arbeit said on Thursday, and confirmed that the club itself will pay for the tests would.
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