CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – A week-long call at the United House of Prayer for All attracted more than a thousand people, but fitness says it created a massive cluster of COVID-19 and resulted in the deaths of at least 3 people.
Now, Mecklenburg County leaders have issued an order prohibiting the church from holding face-to-face meetings over the next two weeks.
Health officials said they connected at least 121 cases in 3 counties on the occasion: 118 cases in Mecklenburg County, two in Iredell County and one in Cabarrus County. Of these cases, three other people have died and a fourth is under investigation.
They also reported that at least seven other people had been hospitalized and that several of them were with fans.
Friday’s figures don’t come with the other 127 people who were evaluated at a management clinic on Thursday, and health officials are still waiting for those results.
Health officials said Saturday that there was a 14-citizen organization in an assisted living facility, Madison Saints Paradise South Senior Living, that related to positive cases.
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Health officials said it was the largest outbreak similar to a time in Mecklenburg County since the start of the pandemic.
On Saturday, the Mecklenburg County Department of Health published what it calls an “imminent reduction” at the United House of Prayer for All because of the outbreak.
Public Health Director Gibbie Harris said it is a tool the branch can use to prevent the church from opening and allowing other meetings.
“We take this as a precaution to prevent the COVID-19 virus from spreading further in our community,” said Director of Public Health Gibbie Harris. “This kind of order is rare, but necessary. “
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An “imminent danger” is explained as a scenario that may simply result in “an immediate risk to human life, an immediate risk of serious physical harm, an immediate risk of serious adverse effects on physical fitness, or a wave of irreparable harm to the human being. environment if none of the measures are taken. “
Mecklenburg County leaders have so far said that church leaders have not accepted from the fitness department.
After the church announced that it was still making plans to hold primary events such as its “Worldwind Revival” event from October 25 to 31, fitness officials said it was at this time that they decided we wanted order.
“The opportunity to continue to exist in this environment and frightens us seriously,” Harris said.
According to the ordinance, all church services in Mecklenburg County will be closed for face-to-face meetings and no meetings of 10 or more people will be held.
All in-person meetings at United House of Prayer services are cancelled until at least November 6, in order. The church should also take steps to bleach and disinfect internal surfaces.
Tony Weathers, owner of a hairdresser across the street from the church on Beatties Ford Road, said he had almost stopped on the occasions of the subpoena himself, and that he did not attend the occasions, he meets several more, adding his family, they have.
“This is what worries me because I cut a little hair,” she says. “The thing is, I don’t know if they had it, or if they had it, or if they were in touch with who might have it. “
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Health officials may have been more than 1,000 more people at meetings that took place between October 4 and 11, many of them from other states such as New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, and Georgia.
On Thursday, the Mecklenburg County Department of Health set up cell control at its location on Beatties Ford Road, where dozens of others connected to the occasion were covered for verification.
Catherine Williams told Channel Nine that she attended the convocation occasions and died before she was tested.
“We don’t know what my mother-in-law died of, yet she was scheduled to be tested on Tuesday, but we couldn’t call her,” Williams said.
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Williams said his circle of relatives hopes to know if COVID-19 is the cause of death.
In the meantime, he stated that some other circle of relatives had also attended these occasions in the hospital.
“My mother-in-law’s sister, she’s in the hospital. At first he was diagnosed with pneumonia, now they say he has COVID-19,” Williams said.
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Williams said he did the test because he wanted to protect himself.
“I had a bone marrow transplant in 2018, so my immune formula is still developing,” Williams said. “I’m in remission but I still need to be protected, it’s safer than regretting it. “
Authorities said 127 more people were screened on Thursday and the fitness branch held an occasion on Friday.
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