No mat­ter how groovy the mu­sic is, stay in your seat!

This is one of the rules com­ing out of a meet­ing yes­ter­day be­tween Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts, Ran­dall Mitchell, and na­tion­al per­for­mance space man­agers.

The meet­ing was called to ad­dress con­cerns about the re­cent Sekon Sun­day vir­tu­al show at Queen’s Hall.

Go­ing for­ward pa­trons will not be al­lowed to “un­nec­es­sar­i­ly move around” dur­ing per­for­mances and that in­cludes con­gre­gat­ing at the front of the stage or in the aisles.

Some spaces will now re­vise their seat­ing arrange­ments to en­sure ap­pro­pri­ate phys­i­cal dis­tanc­ing.

The changes re­flect what many be­lieve were ab­sent from Sekon Sun­day. So­cial Me­dia videos of the event, which was host­ed at Queen’s Hall on Sun­day, raised ques­tions about the ad­her­ence to the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions.

The show be­came sub­ject­ed to a po­lice probe with Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith say­ing as far as he is con­cerned the event was a pub­lic par­ty.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion has now been closed, ac­cord­ing to Grif­fith.

He told Guardian Me­dia fol­low­ing his meet­ing yes­ter­day with Mitchell and oth­er of­fi­cials to en­quire in­to the Sekon Sun­day show, he is sat­is­fied with the pro­to­cols in place at Queen’s Hall.

There has al­so been an un­der­tak­ing by the man­age­ment to ramp up safe­ty mea­sures.

“Such events would have the ten­den­cy to cause pa­trons to con­verge, stand in aisles or even be lured to the stage area. Af­ter speak­ing to Min­is­ter Mitchell along with oth­er of­fi­cials, pro­to­cols would take place to en­sure that such ac­tions would not take place. Ush­ers along with Po­lice pres­ence would as­sist in en­sur­ing this,” Grif­fith stat­ed.

Mean­while, chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion Col­in Lu­cas said while he did not want to com­ment on that par­tic­u­lar show, he is en­cour­ag­ing all car­ni­val stake­hold­ers to do the right thing.

A sim­i­lar call was made by epi­demi­ol­o­gist Dr Av­ery Hinds when asked about the han­dling of vir­tu­al fetes at yes­ter­day’s Min­istry of Health news brief­ing.

“While we do not want to pre­vent peo­ple from be­ing able to par­tic­i­pate in their var­i­ous ac­tiv­i­ties, once there is a breach of all, not just one or two, pre­cau­tions then there is go­ing to be a risk of in­creased spread,” ac­cord­ing to Hinds.

“So, we are get­ting peo­ple get­ting up and mov­ing around and not main­tain­ing their seat­ing and phys­i­cal dis­tanc­ing, re­moval of masks, ex­ceed­ing the ca­pac­i­ty in a giv­en build­ing or set­ting, any of those are go­ing to in­crease risk. I can’t say whether any of those things ap­plied to this set­ting. We do want to en­cour­age across the board that we don’t breach those reg­u­la­tions which are in place for the pro­tec­tion of the pub­lic”, he added.