Data from EU authorities: Also in Germany, corona cases after EM

In connection with the European Football Championship, the European health authority ECDC also counted corona cases in Germany for the first time.

A total of 18 infections in Germany can be linked to the EM, as the EU agency announced in its weekly report.

Four games of the pan-European tournament had taken place in Munich.

Overall, a slight increase to 2535 cases of infection was recorded in the fourth tournament week of the European Championship compared to the previous week.

In countries where there are mass gatherings like at the EM and insufficient preventive measures, it is expected that the risk of Europe-wide transmission of Covid-19 and variants of the coronavirus will increase, according to the report.

Scotland remains by far the hardest hit, with 1991 cases linked to the EM, according to the agency.

This number has not increased compared to the previous week.

The Scottish team had their European Championship group games played in Glasgow and London's Wembley Stadium.

In the UK, the more contagious Delta variant of the virus is spreading rapidly.

There was an increase to 481 infections in Finland.

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin recently rejected criticism from Corona experts at the EM.

"The teams behave very professionally," said the 53-year-old of the BBC.

"We are also very strict in the stadiums and when I hear politicians say that people got infected at the games without any evidence, I am a bit disappointed." The Slovenian was referring directly to the numbers from Scotland.

"Some say 2000 Scottish fans were infected, but the Scottish fans who went to the stadium were tested," said Ceferin.

20,000 people came to London without tickets.

"You won't be tested in the park," said Ceferin.

"Accusing football of spreading the virus is irresponsible from my point of view."

For the ECDC, at least two experts check the infection rate around the European Football Championship every day. The investigations began one week before the start of the tournament and end one week after the final on this Sunday (9 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the European Football Championship, on ZDF and on MagentaTV).