To be one of the lucky thousand who can attend the meetings on the courts of Wacken, you must be vaccinated (have had the second dose for fourteen days already), already have had the coronavirus and present a positive serological test or show a negative test. less than 48 hours old.
If necessary 200 people tested on site per day
In collaboration with the Regional Health Agency, a system has been set up to test up to 200 people per day if necessary at the entrance to the site. This rapid and free antigenic testing center is managed by the Departmental Coordination of Anti-Covid Mediators. We need to predict a waiting time of 30 minutes, which can increase at peak times.
A life-size test of new health protocols
“It is a very large-scale device, foreshadowing the health pass, to ensure the safety of players and spectators, congratulates himself Stephanie Jaeggy, regional delegate deputy to the ARS of Bas-Rhin. This device may be oversized, because there was room to do it. It is also the object of this test and we will reassess at the end of the days, what is necessary for this kind of consequent demonstration “.
This tournament is the first sporting event to welcome so many people this year in Alsace and the spectators are delighted to see beautiful tennis and quite simply to meet so many people again. Michel Gambin did not hesitate to respect the sanitary constraints to be able to attend the show.
“I only had my first shot of the vaccine so I had to take a test and it is negative, explains with enthusiasm this big tennis fan, who chairs TC Lingolsheim. I find it normal to be tested, you have to remember where you come from. It is the beginning of the new life. It’s a great joy because we see people again, it’s great after having stayed so long at home. In addition, there will be Venus Williams, she has beautiful remains, I would like to have her tennis level. No it’s great, we are vaccinated, we are negative, let the party begin “.
A little further, a retiree explains having come from Grenoble to spend three days in Strasbourg: “We waste thirty minutes to be tested, but it’s worth it. I came back to Strasbourg, a city that I love. Some of the best players in the world are here and in addition I take the opportunity to visit the museums that are free “.
Health protocols, an additional cost of 150,000 euros for IS
Every day, a thousand spectators will be able to attend the meetings. This is five times less than normal. They will have to respect a gap seat with their neighbor on the Wacken courts and they can only eat outside.
The testing system at the entrance to the site is fully supported financially by the regional health agency. But health security still has an important blow for the organizers, approximately 150,000 euros on a budget of two million euros.
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