From the article: "The reason given that only five of us were allowed in the public gallery of some 40 seats was social distancing; except we were allowed to a

From the article: "The reason given that only five of us were allowed in the public gallery of some 40 seats was social distancing; except we were allowed to all sit together in consecutive seats in the front row. The two rows behind us remained completely empty." I'm trying to understand nonetheless why still they chose to sit together.