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A Maine wedding is linked to 147 coronavirus cases and 3 deaths. Infections spilled over into a jail and two nursing homes. – Business Insider Australia
At the start of August, Maine had emerged from the coronavirus pandemic relatively unscathed. The state had one of the lowest case tallies in the US — and its average number of new daily cases was declining.
- An indoor church wedding and reception has been linked to 147 coronavirus cases across Maine.
- Three of those people have died. None of them were wedding attendees.
- Contact-tracing efforts found that guests at the wedding either directly or indirectly spread the virus to two nursing homes and inmates at a local jail.
- The pastor who officiated the wedding said people should have the freedom to not wear a face mask at a sermon on August 30.
- Vi…
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