Restaurant guests cheat on Corona information: a beer with Mickey Mouse

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Registration form in Schleswig-Holstein:Data trail of unprecedented proportions

A joke in Corona times: What do Mickey Mouse and Klaus Störtebeker have in common?

Answer: You both appreciate a snack bar in Kiel.

No joke. At least not for the employees of the health department, who most recently had to track down 400 customers of the snack bar. Several employees there had previously tested positive for Sars-CoV-2. However, it turned out to be a problem that around every tenth guest had left incorrect data. One called himself like the cartoon character, another like the privateer - apparently without the takers of the snack bar having noticed.

The health department in Berlin-Neukölln had similar experiences. There had been infections in a brewery there. Names like "Hildegard Prost" and "Farin Urlaub" appeared on the contact lists. A total of 41 of the 350 or so data records were incorrect or incomplete. In the end it turned out: 22 people were infected, more than 70 had to be quarantined. It cannot be ruled out that infected people could not be identified because of their false information.

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