Corona outbreak after birthday party? "Affects the whole district"

Wegscheid has one of the highest numbers of infections in the Passau district.

A birthday party could have contributed significantly to this.

Wegscheid - A private party is said to have triggered around 60 corona infections in the Passau district.

Not only in the fragile balancing act between lockdown and easing in Germany, the party leads to outrage.

Because the increased infection rate in the Wegscheid area is said to be due, among other things, to a "larger private meeting" at the end of February.

At least there is suspicion, said a spokesman in the district office of the

.

The municipality of Wegscheid, which has around 5,700 inhabitants, had the most infections in the Passau district in the past few days, with 54 active corona cases on Wednesday, March 10, for example.

District office and mayor confirmed to the

that the matter was being investigated.

But the authorities are facing a problem: The guests of the alleged party apparently provide false information.

Wegscheid / Passau: health department and police investigate - was the second mayor's son celebrating?

It is therefore difficult to trace contact persons and chains of infection.

Targeted containment through test and quarantine measures is also hardly effective.

The health department determined.

Now the police too.

There should be references to "a celebration in a secret setting", so inspection manager Laurentius Hobelsberger to the

.

Rumors are growing in the district that the party was the birthday of the son of the second mayor of Wegscheid.

Mayor Lothar Venus (CSU) confirmed to the

that there were increasing indications that went beyond the usual "beer table chatter".

However, the second mayor denied such a festival to Venus: there was no such party.

“Of course, this incident is not an isolated issue, but concerns the incidence value across the county.

It is known to be comparatively high, ”said Venus.