Seven dead and at least 177 people infected after a marriage in the small US state of Maine, near Canada.
On August 7, 65 people attended a wedding in a Baptist church and then a reception at the “Big Moose Inn” in the small town of Millinocket (population 4,400).
Ten days later, 24 people tested positive for Covid-19, and the Maine Center for Disease Control (CDC) opened an investigation.
On Thursday, CDC director Nirav Shah provided a new toll: at least 177 people infected and seven people dead.
Among these, "none was physically present" at the wedding, he said.
The network of contacts has brought to light several homes across Maine: more than 80 cases in a prison 370 km from Millinocket, one of the guards of which was at the wedding, 10 cases in a Baptist church in the same region, that home of Reverend Todd Bell who officiated at the wedding, and 39 cases and six deaths at the Maplecrest Rehabilitation and Living Center in Madison, a retirement home 160 km away.