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After the crown bud
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The town of Hamm bans the first family celebrations
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The technical town hall of the city of Hamm (symbol photo).
Photo: dpa / Guido Kirchner
Hamm The town of Hamm is taking Corona’s containment seriously: with the help of a new order, it has now banned early family celebrations. A massive outbreak like three weeks ago at a big wedding shouldn’t happen again.
To contain the corona wave in Hamm, the city has already banned three private celebrations. It involved two bachelorette parties and an engagement party, said Mayor Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann (CDU) at the request of the German Press Agency.
The ban is based on the provisions of a new general decree of the city. It had gone into effect earlier this week after the sharp increase in the number of cases as a result of a major wedding. The decree provides a permit for private celebrations with 51 to 150 participants. Celebrations with 25 to 50 participants should be shown. According to Hunsteger-Petermann, as of Thursday afternoon, more than 70 applications and notifications had already been received.
The city has created its own hotline for inquiries about private celebrations. According to the mayor, five employees answer questions from citizens only there.
The trigger for the crown wave there, with nearly 200 people currently infected, is a grand wedding and other associated festivities that took place in Hamm and Dortmund in early September and a week later in Werl. According to a city spokesperson, the wedding couple was also infected.
To curb further spread, authorities have ordered additional restrictions in addition to notification and approval requirements for the celebrations. Currently, a maximum of five people or members of two households can be together in the public space. The mask requirement was also reintroduced in class. Hunsteger-Petermann said the measures were “very accepted” by the population.
According to the city spokesman, nearly 2,000 people were in quarantine in Hamm on Thursday. The city monitors compliance, for example by calling the landline. “I’m still not aware that someone isn’t doing it,” says Hunsteger-Petermann.
On Sunday, the longtime mayor must face the vote in a runoff. In the first round, the mayor of North Rhine-Westphalia received 37.4 percent of the votes. SPD challenger Marc Herter reached 40.7 percent.
In Emsdetten (Steinfurt district), corona tests will begin on Friday for employees of a poultry processor, where 26 employees tested positive. The district teams want to cut around 300 employees and around 200 other contact persons, mainly from the domestic environment. Results are expected on Saturday afternoon.
