I noticed a short news item on N-TV this morning. Topic? Covid-19 and a funeral.
One of the bigger German ban rules for April and May was the idea of not allowing funerals to occur....at least with full-size crowds. In some states, the rule limited guests at a funeral to ten or less....even at the burial site, it applied.
So in recent weeks, that rule was relaxed.
N-TV picked up the story from Schwabisch Gmund....in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
A funeral was held and a large crowd gathered, around two weeks ago.
In the week after the funeral....forty-seven folks came for various reasons to be tested for the Covid-19 virus.....being positive.
A list of guests? No. No one gathered up names, so there might be more folks who should be tested.
The odds of the funeral ban rules going back? They probably will make a rule about the 1.5 meter social distancing and require some guy to take names of all folks at the funeral.
Course, the question ought to arise....if they wore masks in the church and at the graveyard....how did it transmit? One habit of Germans, after a funeral....is to gather at a local cafe for coffee and cake. My humble guess is that they removed the masks at the cafe and that's where the transmission started up.
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