The festival that didn’t Trnsmt the virus
THERE are no signs that a major music festival has caused a big rise in Covid cases, Scotland’s national clinical director has said.
TRNSMT at Glasgow Green took place before the introduction of vaccine passports, which will be needed for entry to nightclubs and large events from October 1 after the Scottish parliament backed the plans last week.
Up to 50,000 fans attended the festival each day from September 10-12. They had to provide proof of a negative lateral flow test to be allowed in.
National clinical director Professor Jason Leitch said TRNSMT checked every person and it appeared to have gone ‘very smoothly’. He told BBC Good Morning Scotland: ‘We’ve got no signs of TRNSMT causing us big levels of infection and I would have expected that to start to come through by now.’
Professor Leitch added that talks are under way about the logistics of checking jab passports at events like football matches. He said authorities do not want to make attending football or rugby matches a chore, but that with more than 4,000 cases a day such measures are necessary.
He added: ‘Inconvenience is one of the things we’ve had for 18 months and it is going to continue until we can get on top of this wave.’