Vooruit chairman Conner Rousseau advocates the use of the Covid Safe Ticket for all events, large and small. He said that on Friday in De Wereld Today on Radio 1.
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Do you want to organize an event for more than 1,500 people in our country after August 12 without corona measures? Then you need the Covid Safe Ticket. But according to Vooruit chairman Conner Rousseau, it wouldn’t be bad to use that Ticket for smaller events as well.
He organized the Walhalla festival in Sint-Niklaas on Friday, attended by about 800 people, which serves as a test event. “We are in favor of using the Ticket at smaller events. Forward is for that. I am for that myself. I see it now on both sides. With Vooruit in the government, but now also as an organizer. And now I see what those rules mean in practice. We use the Ticket here today and it works. It’s going very smoothly,” he told Radio 1. “We just haven’t been able to convince everyone in the government yet. That’s too bad.”
Rousseau therefore expresses himself as a proponent of the use of the Covid Safe Ticket also for smaller events. But does that go far enough? What does he think of the measures in France, for example, where you will soon have a health pass need to visit the hospitality industry. “I understand that. But that is very far-reaching. Let us try it for events first and then evaluate.”
“People say: aren’t we going to a card company? Well, we’re still in fucking corona time. It’s not like it’s gone. Hopefully, thanks to vaccination, we will no longer need them in the long run. It is also only an intermediate stage. But as long as we need it, I’d be happy to use it.”
As a reminder, the Covid Safe Ticket is available to anyone over the age of 12 who has either been fully vaccinated (+ 2 weeks), can present a recovery certificate of less than 6 months, a negative PCR test (maximum 48 hours old) or a rapid antigen test (up to 24 hours old).
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