Raiders fans urged to use alternate vaccination screening ahead of game

Fans heading to Sunday’s Raiders-Chicago Bears crippled astatine Allegiant Stadium who privation to instrumentality portion successful the alternate COVID vaccine screening process are urged to bash truthful up of kickoff.

A structure acceptable up successful Lot B of the stadium provides fans who can’t oregon privation not to usage the Clear smartphone exertion the accidental to utilize the alternate screening process. Fans besides person the quality to person their archetypal COVID vaccination changeable successful the tent, which allows them to be the game, but portion wearing a mask. Fans who are afloat inoculated for the microorganism are allowed to be Raiders games without wearing a mask.

The structure volition beryllium unfastened Saturday betwixt 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. and connected Sunday from 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The Raiders person offered the screening for their erstwhile 2 location games and squad president Dan Ventrelle said it’s been a palmy endeavor, with 21,300 fans going done the alternate screening process.

The integration of the Clear app has besides been wide used, with implicit 80,000 radical downloading the app for Raiders games, Ventrelle said.

“The effect has been overwhelmingly positive,” Ventrelle said. “We’ve felt a batch of radical person responded to it by either getting vaccinated connected their ain … oregon we’ve had 617 get vaccinated connected tract (at the stadium). So we’ve had bully occurrence successful making definite that we’re creating the information to person a harmless environment.”

Having that harmless situation allows for afloat vaccinated fans to bask games without wearing a mask, thing that is uncommon successful astir nationalist settings with the authorities disguise mandate successful place.

“Safety drives it and that’s the No. 1 priority, but it does make the aforesaid breathtaking situation that we each remember,” Ventrelle said. “You don’t person to deterioration a mask, you tin cheer for your squad and beryllium loud. You tin devour and portion and stitchery with your friends and not person to region … you can’t bash that successful a batch of places present and it’s a bully accidental for radical to beryllium themselves.”

Ventrelle said different NFL teams person reached retired to the Raiders inquiring astir their vaccine mandate to be games.

“We’ve received a batch of inquiries from different teams who person tried to fig retired however to bash it,” Ventrelle said. “I cognize a batch of teams person looked astatine what we’ve done and tried to fig retired however they could replicate it oregon bash thing similar. The league (NFL) was retired present for our archetypal crippled connected Monday Night (Football) and they were precise complimentary of however businesslike it was and however afloat it was earlier kickoff.”

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