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Coronavirus: Dozens may have been infected with COVID-19 at Wisconsin anti-lockdown rally
Seventy-two people who tested positive for COVID-19 in Wisconsin are reported to have recently attended a "large gathering".
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) confirmed it had gathered tracing data on a number of individuals who had contracted the virus, according to US magazine The Progressive.
The findings came to light after hundreds of people in Wisconsin attended a mass rally against the governor's stay-at-home order on 24 April, where social distancing rules were flouted and only around a third of protesters wore face masks.
However it cannot be proven how many of these people contracted coronavirus at the protest as the health department is not tracking attendance of specific events.
Seventy-two people who tested positive for COVID-19 in Wisconsin are reported to have recently attended a "large gathering".
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) confirmed it had gathered tracing data on a number of individuals who had contracted the virus, according to US magazine The Progressive.
The findings came to light after hundreds of people in Wisconsin attended a mass rally against the governor's stay-at-home order on 24 April, where social distancing rules were flouted and only around a third of protesters wore face masks.
However it cannot be proven how many of these people contracted coronavirus at the protest as the health department is not tracking attendance of specific events.