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The police broke up a church service in Essen on Thursday evening with almost 100 participants, 88 adults and 10 children.
The worshipers neither wore masks nor kept the prescribed distance, said a police spokesman on Friday.
There was also no list of participants.
The service was terminated immediately because of the "massive violations of the corona protection ordinance," said the police.
All participants were led out of the church.
Their identities had been established, the adults had received reports and would face fines, the police said.
According to the report, most of the church service participants come from Gelsenkirchen.
The "WAZ" had previously reported.
Christmas and New Year's Eve did not lead to any aggravation of severe cases of infection with the coronavirus in Germany.
There is no "Christmas and New Year's Eve peak" to be seen in the intensive care units of the hospitals, said the President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (Divi), Gernot Marx, on Friday in Berlin.
This is thanks to the behavior of the population.
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According to Marx, the first positive effects of the lockdown in the intensive care units can be seen in the form of a falling number of intensive care patients.
Nevertheless, the situation is "far from easing".
In April at the earliest, if the current positive development continues, he does not expect a decrease to less than 1,000 intensive care patients - according to Marx, there are currently around 4,800 cases, 2,700 of which have to be invasively ventilated.
Marx appealed to continue to strictly adhere to the contact restrictions.
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