Fatal corona event: Scots report massive virus outbreak after visiting EM

As Public Health Scotland reports, almost 2,000 Scottish fans were infected with Corona at the European Championship - a good two-thirds of them in Wembley Stadium during the match against England.

Munich / London - football is actually just a game.

Actually.

For many fans, however, it is often even more.

If you believe former Scottish soccer player and coach Bill Shankly, soccer goes even further than that: “Some people think soccer is a matter of life and death.

I do not like this configuration.

I assure you that it is much more serious! "

Shankly would probably no longer choose his words so martially today and in view of the corona pandemic - and yet they could be suitable for the European Football Championship.

Scottish health authorities are 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

.

Corona: Almost 2,000 cases after visiting the European Championship - Many Scottish fans infect at England game

Most recently, SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach made drastic comments on the organization of UEFA because the distances and the mask requirement in the stadiums were not adhered to.

“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. "

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 in London.

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.

Corona at EM: No information about vaccinated infected people - 90 percent were men

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.

(smk)

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