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A handful of people at a 60-hour party may have spread coronavirus infections across an entire capital city

Just weeks ago, hundreds of people gathered together at one of Berlin's most famous clubs, Kater Blau.

In the club, she met a group of international business people who had traveled to Berlin for the ITB tourism trade fair, which was canceled at short notice."Do you have corona or something?" Sina joked.Tourists walking along a stretch of the former Berlin Wall, before outbreak measures were introduced.Since then, Welt am Sonntag has spoken to over a dozen people who spent the second weekend of March in Kater Blau.

At this stage, clubs were still packed, theaters, concert halls, and bars stayed open. Plans for a soccer game to take place between Hertha BSC and Werder Bremen at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday were still going ahead, with the stands expected to be filled out. Rapper Kontra K's concert at the Mercedes Benz Arena had sold out. Politicians were doing nothing.3 countries have started to slow the coronavirus with total lockdowns. Here's how long they took to work.

A number of virologists suggest that the number of unreported cases is likely to be significantly higher.Getty Images / Sean Gallup / Staff 17 of the first people to have been infected with the coronavirus in Berlin are said to have visited Trompete at Lützowplatz.The party started at midnight and would last 60 hours — until midday on Monday. But this isn't unusual in Berlin's clubbing scene. Sina stayed out for 30 hours before she returned home, estimating she either hugged or kissed somewhere in the region of 50 people.

For people like Sina, Jana, Peter, and Alexander, Kater is the most wonderful club in Berlin. You can tell that it's run by a collective of artists and hippies. Many visitors wear costumes and turn up dressed as everything from elves and pink rabbits to Martians.Even mild coronavirus cases can be brutal. Here's how to know when you should go to the hospital.

A DJ preparing her console at the Kater Blau club in Berlin on March 20, 2020, prior to a live-streamed session.She decided not to share drinks with others, yet she allowed friends to take a drag from her cigarette.Christian, a 32-year-old office worker in a large German company, also shouted in Franziska's ear.Tests that can tell if you're immune to the coronavirus are on the way. Here are the companies racing to bring them to the US healthcare system.

"It was a short stint in Kater Blau," he says. He'll never know whether he caught it in Kater or somewhere else.An empty stretch of the former Berlin Wall, pictured during coronavirus outbreak in Berlin on March 25, 2020.Sina was still fine at this point. She had a meeting with 15 other colleagues and everyone greeted one another with a hug.

On Wednesday, March 11, Sina's friend Alexander, the waiter, started to panic. He headed over to the hospital to wait in line for a coronavirus test. If you include Klaus, there are actually another 700 contacts. Though Klaus has no symptoms, he hasn't been tested for the virus.Sina's friend Peter, the media designer, was hospitalized. A doctor told him on Thursday that he was positive for the virus. Sina's friend Alexander, the waiter, received a call from the health department the same day. He also tested positive then gave Sina's phone number to the health department.

 

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SAI COVIDIOTS

Seemed clear that in countries as S Korea, it was young adults who were spreading the virus, partially down to the fact that young adults tend to travel more & because naturally, they assume they won't be as vulnerable, a handful of infected people=horde of virus superspreaders

people play too much

Someone, please take them home from bali..

From Paris to Berlin....

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