Almost 2,000 Scottish fans were infected with Corona at the European Championship - a good two-thirds of them in Wembley Stadium during a match against England.
Public Health Scotland announced this.
Munich / London - Having the European Football Championship 2021 * take place across the continent was probably not the very best idea in times of a pandemic.
It was also unfortunate that despite the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant in the stadiums, some of the spectators were allowed in.
The Scottish health authorities are now reporting around 2000 new corona cases in connection with the European Football Championship.
1294 and thus around two thirds of the 1991 infections occurred among fans who had accompanied their “Bravehearts” to the game against England on June 18 in London.
This was announced by Public Health Scotland, according to the
BBC
.
Most recently, SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach made drastic comments on the organization of UEFA.
“The game showed again yesterday how close the fans are, how often they hug and yell at each other.
Hundreds of people have certainly been infected and they are now infecting thousands in turn, "tweeted the member of the Bundestag the day after the DFB-Aus against England:" UEFA is responsible for the death of many people. "
EM 2021: 2000 corona cases!
Two thirds of the Scottish fans are infected at the England game
The round of 16 between Germany and England on Tuesday took place with almost 45,000 spectators in front of the largest audience to date.
Distance and masks were a rarity at Wembley Stadium.
How many fans and observers got infected there will be shown in the coming weeks.
The Scottish game against England also took place at Wembley.
A total of 2,600 tickets for the “Battle of Britain” were given to Scottish supporters.
397 spectators were infected with the virus and were at the game Scotland against England at Wembley Stadium.
However, tens of thousands of fans are said to have traveled to the encounter.
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More Scottish corona statistics for the European Championship: 38 fans were infected when the Scots met at their home in Hampden Park in Glasgow against Croatia, another 37 at the home game against the Czech Republic.
After both games there were 55 positives among visitors to the fan zone.
Almost 90 percent of those infected are men.
Three quarters (1470) of them are between 20 and 39 years old.
Since the start of the European Championship on June 11, the number of cases in Scotland has added up to over 32,000.
There is no information as to whether the infected were already vaccinated.
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