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Six thousand couples not to let the coronavirus them from celebrating their happy day. The multiple brides and grooms a mass wedding ceremony in South Korea’s Unification Church on Friday, in spite of the health scare from the coronavirus in neighbouring China. The couples in from sixty countries around the world to their wedding. The newlyweds were by 24,000 guests; some renewing their marriage vows and others friends and family the knot. The church seemed well prepared for such a large-scale event as staff out hand sanitizer and surgical masks to all attendees. They also the temperature of the couples.

The Unification Church is famous for holding the mass weddings. It founded in 1954 by self-declared messiah Sun Myung Moon. The communal weddings in 1961 and have seen hundreds of thousands of couples down the aisle. In many cases, the bride and groom had been and met for the first time at the ceremony. One newlywed about marrying amid the global spread of the coronavirus. He the Reuters news agency: "I'm very happy to attend this deeply blessed joint wedding. Since coronavirus is around these days, I a mask to be on the safe side." A 23-year-old bride from Benin said: "I didn't on a mask because I wanted to beautiful for my husband."