Berlin’s regional authorities had gladly supplied the approximately 40,000 euros to protect the expenditures of all the P.C.R. exams for this experiment, claimed Klaus Lederer, a politician with the remaining-wing Die Linke occasion and Berlin’s current state minister for lifestyle, due to the fact “club society is a part of Berlin tradition.”

Speaking with reporters crammed into a doorway outdoors the Metropol nightclub to shelter from a downpour on the pilot project’s 1st night, Mr. Lederer also famous that retaining shuttered golf equipment afloat was costing taxpayers a hefty sum.

Dr. Frank Heppner, a professor and researcher at Charité who was with Mr. Lederer, stated that P.C.R. assessments were required for the examine for the reason that speedy antigen assessments are “leaky and not best.”

“You have to use the finest, most delicate tool to filter out potential positives,” he claimed.

The pilot task mirrored other current experiments in Germany, which include tests protocols at Berlin classical concert venues this earlier spring and an electronic audio competition exterior the city around the summer season.

“We know just after a really prolonged period of time of lockdown that we have significant collateral results on the society that you have to also bring in. You are unable to just emphasis on the virus and the direct penalties,” Dr. Heppner said. “The oblique effects on a social, on a psychological and an economic amount are also items you have to weigh.”

For the time becoming, the club review has been swept apart by the club reopenings. But Lutz Leichsenring, the spokesman for the Club Commission, said the P.C.R. tests method continues to be a probable alternative in location of new shutdowns or tighter restrictions if infections spike this tumble. Berlin’s golf equipment experienced lined up lab partners, in August, to give club unique 15 euro P.C.R. tests — a substantial sum in a town where door fees hardly ever top 20 euros, but with results certain inside four hours.

Another lockdown would be a “worst-scenario situation that would kill a large amount of jobs,” Mr. Leichsenring mentioned. But the analyze of quick-turnaround P.C.R. tests could guide to solutions “so we can at the very least make sure that people today who go to clubs are secure,” he explained.

Alex Marshall contributed reporting.