Frankfurt, May 25 (RHC)-- More than 40 people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus following a church service in Frankfurt, Germany's financial center, earlier this month, the head of the city's health department told reporters.

"Most of them are not seriously ill.  As far as we know only one person has been admitted to hospital," Rene Gottschalk told the DPA agency.

The service took place on May 10 at a Baptist church, the department's deputy chief Antoni Walczok told local newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau.

"The situation is very dynamic," Walczok told the paper, adding the church did not violate official guidelines aimed at containing the spread of the virus.