On 26th February , the first case of coronavirus in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany , was a soldier in his 40s who attended a carnival event in Gangelt .
On 26 February , the first case in Rhineland-Palatinate involved a 41-year-old soldier who worked in Cologne-Wahn military airport and had attended a carnival event in Gangelt with the 47-year-old patient from North Rhine-Westphalia .