Ten cases of coronavirus contracted in megachurch in France

Monday, March 9th, 2020

Ten people at a five-day megachurch gathering last month in France’s Grand Est region’s fourth largest city have contracted coronavirus.

The French health ministry on Mar. 3 urged the thousands of other people who were at the Feb. 17-21 evangelical rally in the Alsatian city of Malhouse to watch for possible symptoms of COVID-19.

Five of the ten people already infected are members of the same family. Read more

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