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a wedding in Annecy turns into a big cluster

Since a wedding on Lake Annecy on July 14, the health situation in the region has continued to worsen. The boat where the event took place has become the most important cluster in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Of the 93 people on board, 21 are now positive for the coronavirus.

Masks quickly removed

After the discovery of a probable cluster in the region, following this marriage, the ARS is organizing a vast screening campaign. Two days later, a first person tested positive, then twelve others and one individual is transferred to intensive care. Now the JDD indicates that 21 people are infected.

According to the weekly, masks were affixed to the faces at the start of the event, but with the party and the emotion, it quickly disappeared.

200 contact cases in the region

Among the 88 guests, the two employees of the caterer and the three crew members, some contaminated, leave home without knowing their state of health and spread the coronavirus. In particular, a child on the boat who then met more than 25 people in a leisure center in Haute-Savoie. Three of them are now positive. Another, also infected, went to a birthday party in a restaurant where about thirty people gathered.

In addition, an employee of the wedding caterer was also infected. But by the time he learned it, he had already worked for another event in Ain where 40 people were present. Two are now positive.

Nearly 200 contact cases have been identified in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region by the ARS. The boat company on which the wedding took place has now banned this type of event.

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