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After a full-day family celebration: 1700 Bielefeld people quarantined
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Entire classes or grades are affected in several schools in the city. More than a thousand people in Bielefeld are isolated due to a celebration with a lot of “coming and going”. Queues form in front of a test center.
GRAMymnasien, comprehensive schools, but also a vocational school suffer restrictions, a total of ten institutions in the entire city area: In Bielefeld (North Rhine-Westphalia), the authorities are fighting a larger-scale corona outbreak.
The city gave the total number of known infections in relation to the private birthday party in a message on Sunday night as the day before with 36. Quarantine orders at schools affected individual or multiple classes and grades, as well as to the teachers. A total of nearly 900 people, students and teachers, are under quarantine in connection with this case, he said over the weekend.
The numbers rose rapidly on Monday. Local newspapers initially wrote about 1,200 (“Bild” newspaper), some even 1,500 affected people. A city spokesman topped the figure Monday afternoon: There are now 1,700 Bielefeld residents under quarantine.
The “Westfalen Blatt” also documented the long line of cars in front of the so-called test drive center in the city. Now it is recommended not to use this test center. “The test center is overloaded and traffic is already backing up,” he said in a message.
The newspaper also wants to know what happened at the family celebration, which is believed to be the source of the infections. Consequently, it was a birthday party that took place in a private room. The party started in the morning and lasted until night.
Guests of all ages on site
The report literally says: “There were changes of guests, probably there were many comings and goings.” This poses problems for the authorities because the total number of guests and their contact channels are difficult to understand. Obviously there were guests of all ages.
With ongoing follow-up, a further increase in the number of people to isolate is to be expected.
The case causes a stir among the authorities of the city of East Westphalia. The head of the local crisis team, Ingo Nürnberger (SPD), is quoted by the “Westfalen-Blatt” as saying: “There are no regulations for private celebrations, only recommendations. And then, of course, there is also common sense. In times Corona, it is not sensible to host several dozen people in an apartment. “
In total, there are currently 130 infected people in Bielefeld (334,000 inhabitants) according to an estimate from the North Rhine-Westphalia State Health Center.
