On 26 February a 41-year-old soldier that attended a Gangeler Carnival event was hospitalized after testing positive to the virus .
On 26 February , 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 was admitted to Bundeswehr Central Hospital , Koblenz , the first case in Rhineland-Palatinate .