Several dozen people were infected with the new coronavirus during a mass in Germany. While France authorizes the resumption of worship today, in Frankfurt, a mass celebrated on May 10 in a Protestant Baptist church would have caused more than forty contaminations.
Six people admitted to hospital
On April 30, and following a decision of the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany authorized the resumption of worship, against the backdrop of a sharp slowdown in the epidemic. The highest court in the country considered the total closure of places of worship to be a "serious intrusion" into religious freedom. It is therefore about ten days after that that the incriminated mass would have taken place as reported by the local daily Frankfurter Rundschau .
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In the canton of Main-Kinzig-Kreis, on the outskirts of the city, local authorities had already announced Friday the contamination of 16 people who attended "an event in Frankfurt". In total, around forty people have been contaminated according to several media. Six of them were admitted to hospital, according to the DPA news agency, which quotes local health authorities.
Fear of a second wave
Germany, relatively less affected than some of its European neighbors, had on Saturday 177,850 (+638 in 24 hours) officially declared cases of new coronavirus, and 8,216 deaths (+42), according to the Robert Koch Institute, which monitors epidemiological in the country.
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But fears of the second wave remain present in the country. Earlier in the day, authorities in the northern state of Lower Saxony announced that seven people had been infected at a restaurant in the town of Leer. In all, around 50 people were quarantined.
In France, a gathering of 2,000 evangelical faithful at the end of February had caused dozens of contaminations all over the country. In the United States, President Donald Trump on Friday called on the governors of the United States to authorize the opening of places of worship, which he designated as "essential" during a press conference at the White House.