“Unfortunately, Eric Clapton is suffering from Covid having tested positive shortly after the second concert at the Royal Albert Hall”, reads the post. His medical advisers told him that if he were to travel again and act too soon, he could substantially delay his full recovery. Eric is also keen to avoid spreading any infection to any of his band, crew, promoters, his staff and of course the fans.”
The presentation in Zurich was scheduled for today, May 17, with Milan initially set for May 18. Clapton’s team says the guitarist hopes to resume touring starting with shows in Bologna on May 20 and 21.
Clapton has been a prominent opponent of the UK and US Covid-19 protocols, most notably the lockdowns and business closures enacted during the early days of the global pandemic. Clapton, who claimed last year that he experienced “disastrous” side effects (his hands and feet, he said, were “frozen, numb or burning, and virtually useless for two weeks”), collaborated with the singer. Van Morrison in 2020 in the song “anti-lockdown” “Stand and Deliver”which featured the lyrics “Do you want to wear these chains/Until you’re lying in the grave?”
In his own song “This Has Gotta Stop”Clapton sang “I knew something was wrong/When you started laying down the law/I can’t move my hands…This has got to stop/Enough is enough/I can’t take this BS any longer.” He subsequently signed up for a conspiracy theory that vaccination was promoted through subliminal hypnosis and “mass psychosis”.
On their Facebook page last night, Clapton’s team wrote: “It is very frustrating that having avoided covid during lockdown and during the period when travel restrictions were in place, Eric should have succumbed to covid by now, but we have high hopes. he will be sufficiently recovered by the end of the week to be able to perform the rest of the planned performances”.
A further announcement regarding the rescheduling of postponed shows will be made at a later date.
Clapton recently announced North American tour dates for September, including stops in Columbus, Ohio; Chicago, Pittsburgh and two shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Source: Ambito
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