A few days ago, I essayed a piece over a big Covid-19 outbreak in NW Germany, in the town of Hamm (roughly 190k residents). The basic story here....a couple was getting married....they had a bachelor/bachelorette party, and then some big catered event with 300-odd guests. A couple of days passed....some ill health started up and it tracked to the wedding business.
So, an update via Focus today came up.
This entire event was a Turkish wedding....something left out of the original story.
Cooperative folks in terms of providing a guest list? Well....no. Every step along the way, they've been uncooperative....for the bachelor/bachelorette party business, and the wedding party itself.
The organizer of this for the family? He is potentially up for a hefty fine (by law, they could go to 25k Euro).
What the local government says is that 2500 people are now in some type of quarantine because their relationship to the parties and guests.
The other side of this story, which is a bit amazing....some of the guests actually attended multiple weddings in the week. So they could have been infected at party number one, passed it onto several folks there....then gone to party number two, and even party number three.
There's in the range of 300 people who attended multiple events.
All of this is bringing heartburn up for locals who have to deal with schools in chaos, childcare operations possibly shutdown, and people on the edge because of the ban rules.
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