Swiss Olympic, together with the Universities of Bern and Zurich, plans to conduct a study about the effectiveness of protection concepts for major events. As part of that, 1000 SC Bern-fans from the same sector would be required to submit a saliva sample and wear a bracelet at a home game, the Luzerner Zeitung writes. If there were to be positive Covid-cases within the subjects, they could test if and how much the virus spread during the game.
The exact method of the study has to still be worked out and it will have to be allowed from an ethical point of view. To actually conduct it, Matthias Egger, head of the study, needs volunteers and thus works together with the Bears' fan clubs. It would be in the interests of the club and the fans to show that protection concepts work and sport events are feasible, epidemiologist Egger states.
