为检验新冠病毒在聚集性场所的传播途径,德国拟斥巨资打造一场4000人参与的“模拟音乐会”,希望能为文娱场所在回归常态后的防疫工作提供借鉴。 Alexander Popov@5tep5(unsplash) German scientists are planning to equip 4,000 pop music fans with tracking gadgets and bottles of fluorescent disinfectant to get a clearer picture of how Covid-19 could be prevented from spreading at large indoor concerts. 德国科学家计划为4000名流行音乐爱好者配备追踪装置和荧光消毒剂,以便更清楚地了解如何防止新冠病毒在大型室内音乐会中传播。 As cultural mass gatherings across the world remain on hold for the foreseeable future, researchers in eastern Germany are recruiting volunteers for a “coronavirus experiment” with the singer-songwriter Tim Bendzko, to be held at an indoor stadium in the city of Leipzig on 22 August. 在可预见的未来,世界各地仍将暂停举办大型文化集会。德国东部的研究人员正在招募志愿者,与创作型歌手蒂姆·本茨科一起进行“新冠病毒实验”。这场实验将于8月22日在莱比锡市的一个室内体育馆举行。 Participants, aged between 18 and 50, will wear matchstick-sized “contact tracer” devices on chains around their necks that transmit a signal at five-second intervals and collect data on each person’s movements and proximity to other members of the audience. |