German scientists are hosting a pop concert for 4,000 people to study how the coronavirus spreads in large groups and how to combat it

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• German scientists are calling for 4,000 people to head to an indoor stadium in Leipzig to see the pop singer Tim Bendzko on August 22.
• The purpose of the concert is to work out how to throw a large indoor event while minimizing the potential for the coronavirus to spread.
• The plan calls for masked concertgoers to transmit data every five seconds showing where they are in the stadium, using wearable devices.
• They will use fluorescent hand sanitizer so scientists with UV lights will be able to see what surfaces have been touched and "become particularly dangerous," according to its website.
• A fog machine is also expected to be pumping out fog to help visualize how the coronavirus could spread by aerosols.
• Stefan Moritz, who is coordinating the experiment, told The Guardian: "We are trying to find out if there could be a middle way between the old and the new normal that would allow organizers to fit enough people into a concert venue to not make a loss."
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German scientists are planning to throw a concert — using fog machines, fluorescent hand sanitizer, and contact-tracing devices — to work out whether it's possible to hold large indoor events without spreading the novel coronavirus.

Scientists from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg are calling for 4,000 people to head to an indoor stadium in Leipzig to see the German pop singer Tim Bendzko on August 22 as part of a $1.1 million project called Restart-19.

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