A Taylor Swift fan party in Australia became a coronavirus super-spreader event with nearly 100 positive

At slightest 97 radical who attended a Taylor Swift-themed enactment successful Sydney past week person tested affirmative for the coronavirus, authorities said, adding that it’s apt immoderate of the revelers were infected with the omicron variant.

The event, dubbed “On Repeat: Taylor Swift Red Party,” took spot Dec. 10 astatine the Metro Theatre successful Sydney, a unrecorded euphony venue with a capacity of 1,100 people, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. It was billed arsenic a solemnisation of the rerelease of Taylor Swift’s 2012 medium “Red.”

On Thursday, nationalist wellness authorities successful New South Wales said successful a connection that of the astatine slightest 97 confirmed cases of covid-19 that were tied to the party, “it is apt immoderate of these cases person the Omicron variant of concern.” It advised everyone who attended, arsenic good arsenic their adjacent contacts, to get tested for the coronavirus and self-isolate for a week, nether the state’s nationalist wellness guidelines for exposure.

NSW Health said it was reaching retired to 600 radical who attended the lawsuit and checked successful via a interaction tracing app to archer them they should trial and isolate. The wellness department added that radical who attended but did not cheque successful with the app should bash the same.

Cases successful New South Wales are connected the rise, with the authorities reporting 11,590 successful the week ending Saturday evening, compared with 2,841 the week before. More than 93 percent of radical successful New South Wales who are 16 oregon older are afloat vaccinated.

On a Facebook leafage for the event, organizers warned attendees connected Tuesday that a idiosyncratic who tested affirmative for the coronavirus attended, saying they recovered retired done “comments connected our societal media.”

“We cognize this [is] a scary clip for each and we privation to proceed to bash each that we tin to make harmless events for everyone arsenic the satellite moves guardant and learns to unrecorded with Covid successful the community,” wrote the organizers, who said they were based successful Adelaide and “were not connected tract connected the night.”

Some users who attended the enactment reported their affirmative coronavirus diagnoses successful the comments. “Such a amusive nighttime but soooo galore affirmative cases from this nighttime anticipation everyone is okay,” said 1 user.

The Taylor Swift enactment was not the lone event sparking wide isolations in New South Wales past week amid loosening restrictions. In adjacent Newcastle, NSW Health said Friday that anyone contiguous successful 3 antithetic hotels connected Saturday “should show for symptoms and get tested instantly and isolate, if they [are] present.”

Even arsenic authorities authorities treble down connected gradual reopening measures — including by scrapping a rule this week that lone the afloat vaccinated tin be restaurants, cafes and different venues — NSW Health announced Thursday that a music festival owed to instrumentality spot Saturday was ordered to unopen down owed to the risks from “the ongoing dispersed of COVID-19 successful the Newcastle area, wherever the bulk of a grounds fig of cases are the Omicron variant of concern.”