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On 15 February, a merry crowd wearing clown wigs and jester
hats gathered in the town hall of Gangelt, a small western German municipality
nestled by the Dutch border, to ring in the peak of the carnival season.
Beer and wine flowed aplenty as approximately 350 adults in
fancy dress locked arms on long wooden benches and swayed to the rhythm of
music provided by a live band.
During an interval in the programme, guests got up to mingle
with friends and relatives at other tables, greeting each other as Rhineland
tradition commands, with a Bützchen, or peck on the cheek.
A carnival committee of 11 men in red-and-white uniforms
compered the four-hour event and gave speeches on topical issues. Covid-19, the
virus that had been detected on German soil for the first time two weeks
earlier, was not among them.
Yet the coronavirus is the single reason why the carnival
session in Gangelt is now drawing close attention from scientists from around
the world: seven people who walked out of the event later tested positive for
the virus. A 47-year-old man who performed in the “male ballet” at the Gangelt
carnival was the first person in Germany admitted to intensive care with the
infection.
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